On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce.

stretches over 1,200 km through the rugged Pamir Mountains. While its starting point is debated -- some say it starts from Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan and some say from Dushanbe, Tajikistan ...

As he retraces our ancestors’ global migration on foot, the author sees Afghanistan's peaceful villages—and reminders that tensions persist.

Compared with other parts of Afghanistan, women in Wakhan enjoy ... This man lends his horses to visitors to the Pamir mountains for $25 a day. The horses carry the tourists' supplies and ...

Afghanistan is a notoriously difficult country to govern. Empire after empire, nation after nation have failed to pacify what is today the modern territory of Afghanistan, giving the region the ...

Nicknamed the “Roof of the World”, the Pamir Mountains offer trekking ... The core of the snow-capped, secluded mountain ...

The Kyrgyz of the Pamir Mountains in northern Afghanistan live at a high altitude where no crops grow. Survival depends on the animals that they milk, butcher, and barter. On my last afternoon ...

Badakhshan Governor Mohammad Ayub Khalid has said that hundreds of kilometers of roads have been repaired and paved in the ...

On the other hand, the nearby Pamir mountains, where Tashbulak and Tugunbulak are located, are rugged and mostly nonarable because of their elevation. (Today less than 3 percent of the world’s ...

With peaks up to about 7315 meters (24,000 feet), the Hindu Kush forms the spine of the country, trending southwestward from the Pamir Knot to ... In the east, the mountains are indistinguishable from ...

Her family is trapped in a cycle of hunger. In her village and throughout the far north of Pakistan, it requires an ...

The Silk Road was a network. The central caravan tract followed the Great Wall, climbed the Pamir Mountains into Afghanistan, and crossed to the Levant. Along the way were spurs branching off to ...