У входа в проход мертвых. Самарканд
1905 Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The entrance to a passage known as the 'avenue of the dead' in Samarkand, photographed in 1905. Such necropolis approaches, lined with mausoleums, were a familiar feature of the ancient Silk Road city.
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