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Different types of Central Asian Palaw/Pilaf/Plov: Afghanistan´s, Tajikistan´s, Turkmenistan´s and Uyghur´s.

Yashilkul lake in Tajikistan: a lake in the middle of the desert.

Aerial view of the Valley of Panjshir in northern Afghanistan. Video by Damaskus-Studio. #Khorasan

The mountains of Tajikistan. Picture by Olimbek Shirinov.

Xenophon of Athens (430–355/354 BC) looked down on Persian prisoners of war because of their lighter skins (which he considered a feminine trait). The Persian was regarded as an “effeminate slave” because of his white skin in contrast to the “masculine brown Greek”.

trying to figure out why the Arabic/Persian/Urdu/etc. word for "Jupiter" is the same as the word for "Customer" and I'm no less confused after looking at this etymology section

In Persian language, except for “Friday” (“Djummeh”) and “Saturday” (“Shanbe”), we don’t have names for most of the days of the week. “Sunday” is “Yakshanbe” (“One Day after Saturday”), “Monday” is “Dushanbe” (“Two Days after Saturday”)… and so on.

Timur Shah moved the Durrani Empire's capital from Kandahar to Kabul in order to reduce the state's dependence on tribal manpower and bring the center closer to the lucrative provinces of Punjab and Kashmir. Kabul became the summer capital; Peshawar became the winter capital.

Tanbur solo

They found new tattoos on a Scythian ice mummy using scans