Samarkand — Jewel of the Silk Road | Islamic History Documentary

Discover Samarkand, the legendary Silk Road city where paper-making entered the Islamic world in 751, where Ulugh Beg mapped a thousand stars before the telescope, and where the Registan's three tiled madrasas still blaze turquoise against the desert sky. From Gur-e Amir and Shah-i-Zinda to the paper mills that changed how mankind writes — witness fourteen centuries of Islamic art, science, and geometry in Central Asia's greatest city.