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  1. Tamerlane was an avid patron of the arts, so it is only fitting that his mausoleum at Samarkand, finished in 1434 C.E., is considered one of Central Asia's finest buildings. A great innovation is the lobed dome with its elaborate blue tilework.


  2. The Registan, a Muslim complex at Samarkand constructed by Tamerlane.


  3. Tomb of Tamerlane in Samarkand, with blue-tile bulbous roof.


  4. This entrance and one wing of the Madrasa, or theological school, is adjacent to the fifteenth-century Great Mosque at Samarkand; the entire complex on the central square is known as the Registan.


  5. Even in the wilderness of the extreme western parts of China, the government has resettled Han Chinese to establish industrial cities with concrete apartment buildings and cultivated fields like these in the shadow of the mountains along the Silk Road.


  6. A Bactrian two-humped camel, traditional and often the sole means of transport along the desert, awaits a passenger at the last outpost of the Great Wall at Jiayuguan, in western China.


  7. With snow-capped mountains in the distance, a small spur from the last outpost of the Great Wall of China leads westward into the desert.


  8. These workers, shown here in 1994 are in the process of manually laying rails to complete a second train track, parallel to the already-existing single track crossing all of China. Because China has little wood, all of the railroad ties, as well as the telegraph poles, are made of concrete.


  9. Villages with houses composed from the dry soil of the area along the Silk Road in Western China. The adjacent fertile wheat fields are a result of irrigation from a nearby river.


  10. With a plentiful supply of river water, as shown in this picture, Chinese farmers have terraced the hills for the cultivation of wheat. Where the climate is warmer and wetter, as in southern China, rice is the preferred crop.


  11. At the eastern end of the Silk Road in central China, these caves at Longmen, just north of the city of Loyang, contain seventh-century Tang Dynasty statues devoted to the Buddha.


  12. This towering statue of the Buddha at the Longmen caves has imparted a sense of serenity and enlightenment to pilgrims and tourists for the past 1,300 years.


  13. Massive sand dunes outside the city of Dunhuang, in central China.


  14. The Potala Palace at Lhasa, Tibet. The palace is the home of Tibetan Buddhism.
   
 
   
 
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