Samarkand

General view of Ulugh Beg Madradsah, 1417-20, Registan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, pictured on July 16, 2010, at dawn. The lancet arched portal of this Madradsah, commissioned by the scholarly Ulugh Beg, faces the square and high well-proportioned minarets flank the corners. Geometrically patterned mosaic surrounds the entrance arch. It was restored in the early twentieth century. Samarkand, a city on the Silk Road, founded as Afrosiab in the 7th century BC, is a meeting point for the world's cultures. Its most important development was in the Timurid period, 14th to 15th centuries. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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