Xinhua WuAn incense burner from Jirzankal Cemetery, in the Pamir Mountains of western China. 2,500 years ago, people would burn cannabis leaves over hot stones to release psychoactive smoke.

Tajik National Park (2,611,674 ha in area) encompasses almost the entire Pamir Mountains, the third highest mountain ecosystem in the world after the Himalaya and Karakorum Mountains. The Pamir ...

The mediaeval centres, known as Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, were discovered in the Pamir mountains ... may have been home to tens of thousands of people, making it one of the largest cities in ...