Caravanserai

The caravanserais along the long Silk Road, like a beacon in the heart of the deserts of the Middle East, have guided trade caravans from ancient times to early modern times.

More than 400 years ago, safavid Kingdom of Iran built another 999 caravanserais throughout the area to revive the Silk Road. And a new era of architecture and art emerged in the caravanserais. Galeh-ye Khargushi Caravanserai is one of them in the Ardakan desert near Yazd, central Iran.

In the image above, you see the summer milky way on the right. At the bottom of the constellation of Scorpion, it seems that it is moving on the mountains around the caravanserai, and behind it, the constellation of Sagittarius is following him. The brightest object on the left is Jupiter and on its right is Saturn. Below Jupiter on the horizon, you can see the light pollution of Ardakan city, scattered by dust in the region.