In the dimness of dusk, the building looks even more charming. The pillars are solid; the minaret that soars into space; turquoise mosaic inscribed with lafaz Allah; a mihrab decorated with muqarnash ornaments inside a large dome decorated to resemble a honeycomb, which humans would find impossible to do without the help of a computer. Not only was it physically crowded with magnificent buildings thousands of years old (whose beauty once made Alexander the Great lose the words, "I have long heard of the beauty of Samarkand. Everything I heard was true. Except, that the city is more magnificent and beautiful than I imagined.") From the womb of this country were born the scholars and thinkers who changed world civilization. Call it Imam Bukhari who recited more than 7,000 hadiths. Ibn Sina whose monumental work al-Qanun fi at-Tibb is still used as a medical textbook at the world's leading universities centuries later. Al-Khwarizmi the inventor of algorithms and algebras that ushered humans into the digital revolution today. Let's walk through the footsteps of this country's history and pick up its scattered wisdom. Samarkand, let me fall in love with you.