Our trip ended in Almaty, Kazakhstan ... While the traders who once followed the Silk Road may have been replaced by jets crisscrossing the skies, I had found a resounding answer to my curiosity ...

I am in the sprawling Panfilov Park, the most popular park in Almaty, the second city and cultural capital of Kazakhstan, the largest landlocked country in the world and once a key element of the Silk ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he's taking his little prison plant with him. After newly-minted president ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an ...