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The musical instruments of Uzbekistan are represented by many types of string, wind and percussion instruments.   In the late 19th – early 20th centuries,…

Ceramic production occupied an important place in the applied arts of Uzbekistan.   Ceramic vessels had not only practical value, but also decorative.…

Jewelry was one of the highly developed crafts in the period of the Uzbek khanates.   Local jewelers often used silver in their work. Gold was used…

František Hanek, the 8th Regiment’s military bandmaster in the Turkmen city of Mary and in the Uzbek city of Kattakurgan, was among the first to donate…

Hatifi (1455 – 1520), whose talent was greater for the epic style than for lyric poetry, is the author of an epic to the glory of Timur, the Timur-nama.   He…

During World War II, not only were people evacuated to Uzbekistan, but unique museum artifacts were also sent there for safekeeping.   After the…

The inscriptions and patterns carved on the stone arches' walls in the crypt built by Amir Timur for himself in Shakhrisabz, Kashkadarya region, were left…

Rampur City, famous for articulate daggers and caps was the seat of erstwhile Princely Estate of the same name ruled by the Rohilla Chiefs as Nawwābs.   The…

National clothes always differ in traditionality: a costume, as a rule, has not changed for centuries.   Both men’s and women’s clothing had a common…

The mausoleum in the Gumbazi Sayyidan in Shakhrisabz, reminiscent of Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand, was built for members of the Termez branch of Sayyids,…

Hazrati Malik Ajdar mosque one of the district mosques of the city of Shakhrisabz, frame type. Dimensions: 8×8 and 8.5×8.5 m. The larged closed hall…

Sayyid - lord, head. In the Koran and Hadith it is used in the dictionary meaning (“lord”, or as a synonym for one of the names of Allah). Later the…

This Chagatai-Ottoman dictionary is supposed to have been compiled by Ḥāfiẓ ʿAcemoğlu Niyāzī, an Ottoman admirer of Mīr ʿAlī-šīr Navāyī’s (d. 1501) works…

During the course of their history Hungarians (Magyars) had many connections with various peoples of the Turkic world.   They are supposed to have…

The Kushan kingdom is one of the greatest states of antiquity.   In the 1st and early 3rd century AD, along with such giants as the Roman Empire,…

On the whole, the history of Kushan statehood can be divided into two important periods, with Kanishka’s reign as the dividing line between them. In…

The first Hungarian scholar who became interested in texts written in the Chaghatay (Old Uzbek) literary language was Ármin Vámbéry (1832 – 1913).   Though…

Clothing of any people differs in its unique originality, indicates the climatic and social conditions in which this people lives.   It is a kind…

The most diverse types of jewellery on display in the Russian Museum of Ethnography (RME) collection are Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent jewellery, and…

The first expedition of the Russian State Ethnographic Museum to Central Asia occurred in 1900.   This expedition was led by S.M. Dudin, an artist…

Some of the illustrated manuscripts from Ulugbek’s atelier (kitabkhana) in Samarkand were identified and described.   First of all the first page…

The extremely interesting manuscript entitled Mi‘raj-nama is as important for linguists as for art historians and historians of religions. The discovery…

The Raza Library is also called the “Taj Mahal of Books”.   This library is located in the city of Rampur (Uttar Pradesh, India) - a kind of Indian…

The history of the skullcap goes into deep antiquity.   Witnesses of this are preserved wall paintings of the 6th – 7th c enturies, early medieval…