What do we know now about this abandoned ancient enclave ... and its prosperity on the Silk Road. Among the last datable items that Stein found were eighth-century coins. Stein theorized that ...

Whether it's through ancient trade, spiritual exchange, or migration, Indian influence has quietly shaped the societies of ...

The idea of the “Silk Road ... book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ago, is that the Indian subcontinent ...

The Beiting Ancient City site a key hub along the ancient Silk Road in today's Xinjiang Uygur ... along with a smaller collection of stone tools and copper coins. "Excavations at the Beiting ...

“The centrality of the Indian ... of the two ancient economic and cultural hubs of Asia” has been, he writes, “obscured by the seductively Sinocentric concept of the ‘Silk Road.’” ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...

we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost civilisations. Samarkand’s Silk Road past is ...

Archaeologists working deep within China's Xinjiang province have discovered over 200 ancient tombs which date ... one of the key destinations on the Silk Road trade route. Ekbar Kelim, a local ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than ... at the two mountain sites had yielded pottery, coins and jewelry, which may have been traded for weapons ...