Daya Kathyn

Daya Kathyn is a medieval caravanserai on the left bank of the Oxus, on the road from Amol to Khwarazm. Its square enclosure and richly worked brick entrance sheltered travellers beside the river and the desert. An earlier fortified station stood here, and the surviving inn took shape under the Seljuks in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its rooms opened around a courtyard, providing space for merchants and their animals on a long journey between oasis cities. The building remained in use into the sixteenth century.