Free Bukhara discovery card

Look at a brick, compare dates around a pool, identify a trading building and enter a household through its museum record.

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The dome, two arched façades and patterned brick surfaces of the Samanid Mausoleum — The Samanid Mausoleum: changes in brick direction give the walls a woven rhythm. Patrickringgenberg · 2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; no cropping or historical reconstruction. Derivative under the same Share-Alike licence. Image record ↗ · Licence ↗

1. Brick / observation: find a course that changes direction on the mausoleum. Write one sentence about what you see, then a separate sentence about what the architectural source explains.

2. Pool / chronology: match 1568, 1620 and 1622 to the surrounding buildings. Why does a shared location not establish a shared construction year? Add the photograph’s date in a separate line.

3. Passage / identity: name the building in the dome photograph. Which feature described for Tim Abdullah Khan should you avoid claiming that this image proves?

4. Courtyard / representation: choose a seasonal room or household object from the merchant-house museum record. What can it tell you about this household, and whose lives remain outside its account?

Original free English worksheet, 27 October 2026. Not a translation or release of a paid Turkish PDF. Notes are not saved automatically; print or save as PDF before closing.