The madrasa founded by Ulugh Beg in Samarkand. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons ... whose faculty was composed of dozens of scholars from throughout the Timurid Empire, such as the Turk Qāḍī ...

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This includes the Bibi-Khanym Mosque (pictured), constructed for the wife of notorious conqueror Timur (sometimes known as Tamerlane), who declared Samarkand the capital of his empire. He lies ...

Taking advantage of this relative stability, Maes’ expedition crossed Parthian territory and advanced along the caravan routes that traversed Iran, Afghanistan, and the northern Kushan Empire ...

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Yet he was never one to give up, and adhered to the S.A.S.’s unofficial motto, “Always a little further”—a line from James Elroy Flecker’s 1913 poem “The Golden Journey to Samarkand.” ...

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