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The monograph that we are handing over to the Readers is the third volume in the series started in 2021, published by the Lublin University of Technology Publishing House. When browsing its table of contents, a question may arise, how did it happen that the subject so distant from technical issues became of interest to employees of a technical university. The cooperation of the staff of the Department of Computer Science with partners from Uzbekistan began a few years ago, and since 2017, scientific expeditions have been regularly organised, the purpose of which was three-dimensional digitisation of the cultural heritage of the area related to the Silk Road. During the expeditions, both small museum artefacts and large architectural objects were scanned. The initiated cooperation resulted in the organisation of joint conferences in Poland and Samarkand (Uzbekistan): International Conferences on Information Technology in Cultural Heritage Management (IT-CHM), allowing for the preparation of many scientific publications for conferences and journals. In 2019, the cooperation between the Lublin University of Technology and Uzbekistan allowed us to obtain a project financed by the National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), under the name "3D Digital Silk Road" (project number PPI/APM/2019/1/00004). The acquisition of a new source of financing made it possible not only to continue the existing activities, but also to significantly develop them. The participants of the project are the Lublin University of Technology and 4 universities from Uzbekistan: National University of Uzbekistan (NUU) in Tashkent, Samarkand State University (SamSU), Chirchik State Pedagogical Institute (CSPI) and Urgench State University (USU). The published monograph is the result of the International Conference "IT in Cultural Heritage of the Silk Road (IT-CHSR'2021)", which took place on December 13–15, 2021 at the Lublin University of Technology (Lublin, Poland). Among the conference participants, as many as 15 people came from Uzbekistan to Lublin, representing Uzbek universities and museums. Due to the fact that several dozen papers were delivered during the conference, articles on various types of research were selected for this volume. Thus, we have texts describing objects of material heritage – from rock drawings, Palaeolithic, bronze and pottery artefacts found in the excavation area, to urban considerations devoted to cities and architecture of the Timurid period. The monograph also includes works devoted to intangible heritage: historical topics related to the Silk Road, as well as earlier times, cultural institutions and museums established in this area, and even certain economic and political issues. Among the works there is also a text which, through the legend of the Lajkonik, connects Kraków and Samarkand – an analysis of the historical background of Ksawery Pruszyński's story

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