Uzbekistan
Aerial view of the Sher-Dor Madrasah, 1619-1636, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, pictured on July 15, 2010 at sunset which lights up the elaborately tiled facade and domes. In the background is the Chorsu, a dome-arched construction, 15th and 18th century, the old shopping centre of the city. 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
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13425281
Media ID
45090314
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5616px x 3744px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
