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A bird-shaped ceramic vessel brought to Uzbekistan from the prestigious DAVID AARON Gallery in the United Kingdom has become one of the most valuable and meaningful works in the exhibition of the Islamic Civilization Center. This rare artifact dating to the 13th-14th centuries vividly demonstrates the high artistic and philosophical level of Central Asian pottery, as well as the priceless legacy of craft schools that flourished during the era of Amir Timur.

The astrolabe specially brought from the Netherlands is not an ordinary museum exhibit, but a jewel of knowledge that has traveled across centuries. Once revealing the secrets of the sky, determining prayer times, and serving as a bridge of knowledge between continents, this invaluable instrument today demonstrates the high level of human intellectual achievement at the Center’s museum.

European maps created in the 17th- 18th centuries began to depict Central Asia not as a vague territory, but as a region hosting clearly defined scientific and trade centers such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva. Through these maps, one can see today at the exposition of the Islamic Civilization Center how European scholarship understood Uzbekistan.

For the first time, the original copies of four rare masterpieces of Eastern literature have been brought together in a single space at the exhibition of the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan.