Varakhsha

Varakhsha (also included in both serial nominations “Silk Roads Sites in Uzbekistan” and the listed “Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor”) are the ruins of an ancient settlement and palace in the Boukhara oasis, on the Bukhara-Khorez, trade route. It was a small triangular shaped city. During excavations, painting of riders on elephants fighting mythic predators were found (now in the Hermitage Museum).