Editor’s Note: The Astana Times continues its Forgotten Cities of the Silk Road series, exploring Kazakhstan’s tentative ...

Taraz, Kazakhstan: A Silk Road City Through an Artpologist’s Eye. catherine ku May 21, 2013. May 21 2013 2 min read Share. Tweet Share Share Email Copy.

ASTANA — Beneath the streets of modern-day Turkistan lies the ancient settlement of Yassy-Turkistan, an archaeological ...

More recently, Kazakhstan has been building ties with other important players as it pursues a “multi-vector” foreign policy.Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022 and Moscow’s ...

In a vibrant celebration of cultural exchange, the "Silk and the Silk Road: From China to Kazakhstan" exhibition opened at the National Museum of Kazakhstan on June 16. This flagship event of ...

It was Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, the country’s sole ruler since it broke from the imploding Soviet Union, who first proposed reviving old Silk Road trade routes.

Kazakhstan’s Role in the Iran-Israel Crisis. Kazakhstan has warned of deteriorating security in the Caspian region after the United States military strikes on Iran on June 22. Russia and Iran ...

Kazakhstan has launched a new transit railway linking China to Europe, aiming to beat rival routes for journey time in the competition to handle a growing flow of goods along the ancient Silk Road ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from Xinhuanet: The China-Central Asia Cooperation Development Forum and the Third Silk Road International Communication Forum ...

The name ‘Silk Road’ evokes images of Marco Polo and endless camel caravans stretching from Beijing to Baghdad and on to the Venetian Lagoon. But the fact is there was no single, definitive ...

In a vibrant celebration of cultural exchange, the "Silk and the Silk Road: From China to Kazakhstan" exhibition opened at the National Museum of Kazakhstan on June 16. This flagship event of ...