National Museum of Antiquities

Dushanbe National Museum in Tajikistan

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List of Best Things to do in Dushanbe , Tajikistan

Rudaki Park
Pamir Highway
Statue of Ismoil Somoni
NOOR ART GALLERY
National Museum of Tajikistan
Ismaili Centre
Flagpole with the Flag of Tajikistan
National Library of Tajikistan
National Museum of Antiquities
Victory Park

Buddha in Nirvana - Tajikistan's Buddhist Heritage.MOV

Bro. Chan Khoon San visited Tajikistan's National Museum of Antiquities in Dushanbe on 4 June 2011 to view the famous terracotta Buddha statue, discovered in the 1960s among the ruins of a temple called Ajina Tepa at Kurgan Tube, about 100km south of Dushanbe. Called ``Buddha in Nirvana,'' it dates to the 6th or 7th century AD and measures 12.8m long and 2.7m high. Because of its huge size and fragile condition, it was cut into 92 pieces before being transported back to Dushanbe. The restoration of the sculpture had been a long and difficult process. It was completed for the opening of the National Museum in September 2001 during the course of Tajikistan's 10th anniversary of independence celebrations.

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Day 1

Thu




Arrive in Dushanbe, by Turkish Airlines TK -254 , 03-45

After finishing border crossing formalistic meeting the group. Transfer to the hotel. Rest in hotel. Afternoon visit to Shokmansur bazaar and stroll main streets and squares Overnight –Hotel Lotus 4*

Day2

Fri


Dushanbe and Hissar fortress

At morning meeting with group for excursion to Hissar Fortress. Located outside of Dushanbe (27 km. to West from Dushanbe), the Hissar Fortress houses the remains of the palace of Ibragimbek-Khan, belong of Bukhara Emirate. Its thick walls once guarded a pool, garden, and palace, while the fortress itself opposed a noisy market and caravanserai. What remains today is a portion of the wall and the gate towers, which are representative of the 18th and 19th century style, then drive back to Dushanbe. After lunch visit Tajikistan State Museum. The Museum includes natural history exhibits, Tajik costumes, and a mock-up of a Tajik house. With highlights - biggest statue of “Relaxing Buddha”. Ethnographic part of Museum showcases traditional Tajik crafts, including ceramics, embroidered fabrics, woodcarving and jewelry.

Overnight – Hotel Lotus 4*

Day 3

Sat




Dushanbe - Shakhrituz-Chiluchor chashma

At morning meeting with group and drive to the South of country to Shakhrituz city, over Fakhrabad pass along Vakhsh river and valley. Upon arrival visit to Chilu-Chor-Chashma holly spring and Islam pilgrims place. Overnight - Guesthouse Umed

Day 4

Sun




Shakhrituz - TakhtiSangin -Shakhrituz

At morning drive to the Tajik-Afghan border for visiting ruins of Oxus temple, Takhti-Sangin excavations , where was found Treasure of Oxus. The first step of Alexandr Great army, on modern area of Tajikistan was here. On the way back visit to the mosque Mazori-Sharif.

Overnight - Guesthouse Umed

Day 5

Mon


Shakhrituz- Kurganteppa - Ajinateppa - Nurek - Dushanbe.

At the morning drive via Kurgan-Teppa city and Ajinateppa, the excavations the Buddha in Nirvana found in 1966 in one of the monastery corridors. Today the sculpture of Budda is exhibited at the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan in Dushanbe. That is the one of biggest sculpture of the Buddha found on the territory of modern Central Asia. Drive back to Dushanbe by road via Dangara and Nurek hydro Power Station and Nurek water reservation . Overnight hotel. Hotel Lotus 4*

Day 6

Tue




Dushanbe - Anzob pass - lake Iskanderkul

Drive through picturesque scenery of Varzob and Fon-Daro valleys and Anzob pass (3200 m) to Lake Iskanderkul (Alexander Great Lake) – the heart and purl of the Fan Mountains. After lunch stroll around the lake, visiting 50m high waterfall (located 2 km to the North from lake) and Snake Lake. ON Tourist bungalow.



Day 7

Wed


Iskanderkul lake – Penjikent

After breakfast drive through picturesque scenery l along Fon-Dario valley via Aini city, to the Penjikent, ancien Sogdian and Zoroastrian town of Penjikent with its 5th century ruins called “Asian Pompeii”. After visit on “Sarhazm” 4500 year old excavation and Museum of Rudaki name. Overnight - hotel Penjikent or Guesthouse Maksud

Day 8

Thu


Penjikent-Istravshan-Khujant

Visit Daming Palace, the Daming Palace National Heritage Park in Xi'an, China Tours

Daming palace was the biggest palace cluster in the Chang’an City and it's the most magnificent building complex of Tang dynasty. In this video we visited the museums of the Daming palace and Danfeng gate relics. There is the example of the Daming palaces in National Heritage Park. These precious relics can make you feel the the most magnificent Tang dynasty.

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National Museum of Afghanistan

National Museum of Afghanistan
The National Museum of Afghanistan also known as the Afghan National Museum or sometimes the Kabul Museum, is a two-story building located 9 km southwest of the center of Kabul City in Afghanistan. As of 2014, the museum is under major expansion according to international standards, with a larger size adjoining garden for visitors to relax and walk around.
The museums collection had earlier been one of the most important in Central Asia, with over 100,000 items dating back several millennia.
With the start of the civil war in 1992, the museum was looted numerous times resulting in a loss of 70% of the 100,000 objects on display.
Since 2007, a number of international organizations have helped to recover over 8,000 artifacts, the most recent being a limestone sculpture from Germany.
Approximately 843 artifacts were returned by the United Kingdom.

History Museum of Armenia

The History Museum of Armenia is a museum in Armenia with departments of Archaeology, Numismatics, Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920. 35% of the main collection is made up of archaeology related items, 8% of the collection is made up of Ethnography related items, Numismatics related items make up 45%, and 12% of the collection is made up of documents.[1] It is regarded as Armenia's national museum and is located on Republic Square in Yerevan. The state financially supports the museum and owns both the collection and the building. The museum carries out conservation and restoration work and publishes works on Armenian architecture, archaeology, ethnography, and history. They also have published a series of reports on archaeological excavations since 1948. The museum carries out educational and scientific programs on Armenian history and culture as well.
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Глиняная статуя Будды (Душанбе) / Buddha in Nirvana (Dushanbe)

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Take a magic-carpet ride along the length of the most storied of ancient trade routes, the Silk Road, with Colin Thubron, one of the world's greatest living travel writers. Mr. Thubron describes his journey of some 7000 miles-by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, camel, and foot-out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, which led to his bestselling book, Shadow of the Silk Road.

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A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969 and currently its president, Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator. In 2007, he was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth.

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00:19:47 4.3 Al-Biruni correspondence
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00:28:46 7.2 Philosophy of science
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00:31:16 7.4 Physics
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00:36:04 8.1 Astronomy and astrology
00:37:54 8.2 Chemistry
00:39:45 8.3 Poetry
00:40:10 9 Legacy
00:40:19 9.1 Middle Ages and Renaissance
00:42:27 9.2 Modern reception
00:46:49 10 Arabic works
00:49:25 10.1 List of works
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Avicenna (; also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; Persian: ابن سینا‎; c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He has been described as the father of early modern medicine. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and works of poetry.

Часть 34. Город Афины. Part 34. City Athens

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Часть 34. Город Афины (Греция)
Part 34. City Athens (Greece)
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Афи́ны (греч. Αθήνα, МФА: [aˈθina]) — столица Греции, нома Аттика и номархии (префектуры) Афин. Располагается в Центральной Греции и является экономическим, культурным и административным центром страны. Названы в честь богини Мудрости Афины, которая была покровителем древнего полиса. Афины имеют богатую историю; в классический период (V век до н. э.) город-государство достигло вершины своего развития, определив многие тенденции развития позднейшей европейской культуры. Так с городом связаны имена философов Сократа, Платона и Аристотеля, заложивших основы европейской философии, трагиков Эсхила, Софокла и Еврипида, стоявших у истоков драмы; политическим строем древних Афин была демократия.
Территория Афинской агломерации — 412 кв. км. Эта территория окружена горами: Эгалео (Αιγάλεω), Парнита (Πάρνηθα), Пендели (Πεντέλη) и Имитос (Υμηττός). Общая численность населения составляет 1/3 от общей численности населения Греции и составляет, в соответствии с переписью 2001 года, 3 361 806 человек.
Афины были крупным и могущественным городом, одной из колыбелей греческой культуры. Во времена золотого века Греции (около 500 года до н. э. до 300 до н. э.) город стал важным культурным центром. После золотого века Афины не утратили своего значения вплоть до расцвета Римской империи.
Философские школы были закрыты в 529 году императором Византийской империи Юстинианом I. За 200 лет до этого в Византийской империи христианство было назначено официальной религией. Афины потеряли былое величие и превратились в провинциальный город. Между XIII и XV веком на город претендуют византийские, французские и итальянские рыцари из Латинской империи. Последними в начале XIII века было образовано Афинское герцогство.
В 1458 году турки захватили город и он стал частью Османской империи. Население города сократилось в связи с ухудшением условий жизни после падения империи. Многие районы города (в том числе и старинные здания) были уничтожены в течение XVII—XIX веков, а город контролировали несколько группировок. Неблагоприятно сказались на Афинах и частые войны между Турцией и Венецианской республикой в этот период. Так, во время штурма города войсками венецианского генерала Франческо Морозини 22 сентября 1687 года артиллерией венецианцев был разрушен Парфенон.
В 1833 году Афины провозглашены столицей новосозданного Королевства Греция
По Лондонскому и Бухаресткому мирным договорам 1913 года, заключенным по результатам Балканских войн 1912—1913 годов, Греция почти вдвое увеличила свою территорию и население, а Афины очень скоро заняли достойное место среди европейских столиц.
Во время Второй мировой войны Афины оккупировали немецкие войска. Однако после войны в Афинах, как и в Греции в целом, начался период ускоренного развития, который длился до 1980-х, когда впервые дали о себе знать проблема перенаселения столицы и проблема транспорта.
Современные Афины — мегаполис с античными памятниками, всемирно известный «ночной жизнью» и торговыми центрами высшего уровня. В 2004 году здесь состоялись 28 летние Олимпийские игры.
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The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek/Ўзбек, pl. Oʻzbeklar/Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group; the largest Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan but are also found as a minority group in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and China. Uzbek diaspora communities also exist in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.

Baku

Baku (Azerbaijani: Bakı, IPA: [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world. Baku is also the largest city in the world located below sea level. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal parts: the downtown area and the old Inner City (21.5 ha). At the beginning of 2009, Baku's urban population was estimated at just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area.
Baku is divided into eleven administrative districts (raions) and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on islands in the Baku Bay and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 km (37 mi) away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. According to the Lonely Planet's ranking, Baku is also among the world's top ten destinations for urban nightlife.


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Avicenna


00:01:01 1 Name
00:01:36 2 Circumstances
00:03:20 3 Biography
00:03:29 3.1 Early life
00:07:13 3.2 Adulthood
00:10:58 3.3 Later life and death
00:12:16 4 Philosophy
00:13:39 4.1 Metaphysical doctrine
00:17:42 4.2 Argument for God's existence
00:18:25 4.3 Al-Biruni correspondence
00:18:53 4.4 Theology
00:21:18 4.5 Thought experiments
00:25:03 5 iThe Canon of Medicine/i
00:25:29 6 iLiber Primus Naturalium/i
00:25:58 7 iThe Book of Healing/i
00:26:07 7.1 Earth sciences
00:26:48 7.2 Philosophy of science
00:28:09 7.3 Logic
00:29:07 7.4 Physics
00:31:05 7.5 Psychology
00:33:24 8 Other contributions
00:33:34 8.1 Astronomy and astrology
00:35:17 8.2 Chemistry
00:37:00 8.3 Poetry
00:37:23 9 Legacy
00:37:32 9.1 Middle Ages and Renaissance
00:39:32 9.2 Modern reception
00:43:35 10 Arabic works
00:46:01 10.1 List of works
00:49:07 11 Persian works
00:50:05 12 See also



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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates



SUMMARY
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Avicenna (; also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; Persian: ابن سینا‎; c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He has been described as the father of early modern medicine. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650. In 1973, Avicenna's Canon Of Medicine was reprinted in New York.Besides philosophy and medicine, Avicenna's corpus includes writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics and works of poetry.

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The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Early Christians were persecuted for their faith at the hands of both a small number of Jews from whose religion Christianity arose and the Romans who controlled many of the lands across which early Christianity was spread. Early in the fourth century, a form of the religion was legalized by the Edict of Milan, and it eventually became the State church of the Roman Empire.
Christian missionaries as well as converts to Christianity have been the target of persecution ever since the emergence of Christianity, sometimes to the point of being martyred for their faith.
The schisms of the Middle Ages and especially the Protestant Reformation, sometimes provoked severe conflicts between Christian denominations to the point of persecuting each other.
In the 20th century, Christians have been persecuted by various governments including the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the form of the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide and the Greek Genocide, as well as atheistic states such as the Soviet Union and North Korea. During World War II members of some Christian churches were persecuted in Nazi Germany for resisting Nazi ideology.
In more recent times, the Christian missionary organization Open Doors (UK) estimates that over 200 million Christians face persecution, particularly in Middle Eastern countries such as Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

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The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West. It was central to cultural interaction between the regions for many centuries. The Silk Road refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West Asia and Southern Europe.
The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty (207 BCE–220 CE). The Han dynasty expanded the Central Asian section of the trade routes around 114 BCE through the missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy Zhang Qian. The Chinese took great interest in the safety of their trade products and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the trade route.Trade on the Road played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between the civilizations. Though silk was the major trade item exported from China, many other goods were traded, as well as religions, syncretic philosophies, sciences, and technologies. Diseases, most notably plague, also spread along the Silk Road. In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road was a route for cultural trade among the civilizations along its network.Traders in ancient history included the Bactrians, Sogdians, Syrians, Jews, Arabs, Iranians, Turkmens, Chinese, Malays, Indians, Somalis, Greeks, Romans, Georgians, Armenians, and Azerbaijanis.In June 2014, UNESCO designated the Chang'an-Tianshan corridor of the Silk Road as a World Heritage Site. The Indian portion is on the tentative site list.

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Baku ( bə-KOO, BAH-koo; Azerbaijani: Bakı, IPA: [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. At the beginning of 2009, Baku's urban population was estimated at just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is the sole metropolis in Azerbaijan.
Baku is divided into twelve administrative Baku's (raions) and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. According to the Lonely Planet's ranking, Baku is also among the world's top ten destinations for urban nightlife.The city is the scientific, cultural, and industrial center of Azerbaijan. Many sizeable Azerbaijani institutions have their headquarters there. The Baku International Sea Trade Port is capable of handling two million tons of general and dry bulk cargoes per year. In recent years, Baku has become an important venue for international events. It hosted the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the 2015 European Games, 4th Islamic Solidarity Games, the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix since 2016, and will host UEFA Euro 2020. The city is bidding for Expo 2025 against Yekaterinburg, Russia and Osaka, Japan.
The city is renowned for its harsh winds, which is reflected in its nickname, the City of Winds.

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00:02:23 1 Etymology
00:03:53 2 History
00:04:02 2.1 Antiquity
00:05:24 2.2 Rise of the Shirvanshahs and the Safavid era
00:08:51 2.3 Downfall of the Safavids and the Khanate of Baku
00:10:05 2.4 Russo-Persian Wars and Iran's forced ceding
00:12:10 2.5 Discovery of oil
00:14:43 2.6 World War I
00:17:49 2.7 Soviet period
00:19:00 2.8 World War II
00:19:58 2.9 Fall of the Soviet Union and later
00:20:52 3 Geography
00:21:18 3.1 Climate
00:24:05 4 Administrative divisions
00:24:25 5 Demographics
00:25:38 5.1 Ethnic groups
00:27:00 5.2 Religion
00:28:18 6 Economy
00:30:47 6.1 Tourism and shopping
00:32:32 7 Culture
00:33:34 7.1 Theaters
00:35:22 7.2 Museums
00:35:44 7.3 Libraries
00:36:02 8 Architecture
00:36:39 8.1 Hamams
00:37:05 8.1.1 Teze Bey Hamam
00:37:39 8.1.2 Gum Hamam
00:38:01 8.1.3 Bairamali hamam
00:38:23 8.1.4 Agha Mikayil Hamam
00:38:52 8.2 Modern architecture
00:40:44 8.3 Music and media
00:43:03 8.4 Nightlife
00:44:00 8.5 Parks and gardens
00:45:17 8.6 Sports
00:48:47 9 Transport
00:53:03 10 Education
00:55:37 11 Health care
00:56:18 12 Notable residents
00:57:27 13 International relations
00:57:37 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:57:52 13.2 Partner cities
00:58:23 14 Gallery
00:58:32 15 See also



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Baku (; Azerbaijani: Bakı, IPA: [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. At the beginning of 2009, Baku's urban population was estimated at just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is the sole metropolis in Azerbaijan.
Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. According to the Lonely Planet's ranking, Baku is also among the world's top ten destinations for urban nightlife.The city is the scientific, cultural, and industrial center of Azerbaijan. Many sizeable Azerbaijani institutions have their headquarters there. The Baku International Sea Trade Port is capable of handling two million tons of general and dry bulk cargoes per year. In recent years, Baku has become an important venue for international events. It hosted the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the 2015 European Games, 4th Islamic Solidarity Games, the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix since 2016, hosted the final of the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League and, will be one of the host cities for UEFA Euro 2020.
The city is renowned for its harsh winds, which is reflected in its nickname, the City of Winds.