The Aryans were the Indo-Europeans who travelled eastwards and discovered the Ephedra-containing Soma plants in the Pamir ...

Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County is on the eastern slope of the Pamir Plateau, with an average altitude of over 4,000 meters ...

(250328) -- TAXKORGAN, March 28, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Pan Qian (1st L), a doctor from Shenzhen, talks with villagers and local ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

Its hydrological balance is strongly determined by inflows from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers which are fed by glacial melt waters from the southwestern Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan and the Tien ...

Through nomadic people and foreign merchants along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes ran through China, across the Pamir mountains, through Afghanistan and into the Levant and Anatolia.

Kashgar, in southwest Xinjiang, is surrounded by the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, and Pamir Plateau, and bordered by the Taklimakan Desert. Xinjiang has three main desert zones: Taklimakan, ...

Former US President Donald Trump proposed buying Greenland in 2019 for national security reasons, echoing past US interests. The island is valued between $12.5 billion and $2.8 trillion due to its ...

Our writer takes us on a journey of a lifetime across the so-named “5-Stans,” with all the wonder and mystery these nations ...

A British father and son are hoping to set two new world records by embarking on a year-long bike ride around the world. George Kohler, 56 and his son Joshua, 22, from Norfolk in East Anglia, will ...

to the majestic mountains of New Zealand and the Andes. Mr Kohler said he is most nervous about cycling across the Pamir Highway, which runs through Central Asia and the Nullarbor Plain in ...