Turkmenistan

Ancient Merv in Turkmenistan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Silk Road’s most significant lost cities where successive empires from the Achaemenids to the Seljuks built a civilisation of extraordinary cultural and architectural ambition across the Central Asian desert.

Nisa is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Ashgabat in Turkmenistan preserving the impressive ruins of the ancient Parthian Empire’s first royal capital — a site of extraordinary archaeological and historical significance on the historic Silk Road.