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| From 2025 09 17 Khiva |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from the ruins of Toprak-Kala (1st-5th century CE). A thousand years before Marco Polo journeyed the Silk Road, ancient cities like Toprak-Kala flourished. Wikipedia calls it "an ancient palace city and the capital of Chorasmia in the 2nd/3rd century CE, where wall paintings, coins and archives were discovered." The city was built from sun-dried mud bricks (adobe).
Bonus photos are after the jump.
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| From 2025 09 17 Khiva |
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| From 2025 09 17 Khiva |
"Mud brick walls endure
baked beneath the desert sun.
Millennia pass."
— h/t ChatGPT
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