A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle Kingdom In the customs hangar where our minibus is being held on the border ...

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago ...

By Alex Stambaugh and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change ...

More than 1,500 years ago, followers of Buddhism started painting art inside a string of caves, threading through the desert of northwestern China. In some cases, they chiseled elaborate statues ...

Changing weather patterns in northwest China are putting ancient Silk Road cave murals and statues at risk, new research has found, underscoring how a warming atmosphere threatens some of the ...

Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change, researchers have found.

Crumbling and detachment on a mural in the Eastern Cave of the Jinta Temple. Source: Greenpeace Source: Zhangye Cultural Heritage Administration via Greenpeace Gift this article ...

(The controversy behind this Silk Road city’s ancient wonders.) Oasis trade hub After several weeks, Stein established that as many as 14 Buddhist temples had once dominated the town.

Pages from of one of the oldest Qurans in existence are among the historical treasures on show at the “The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases” exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

TO COINCIDE with the 36th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which opens Wednesday on the Mall and whose focus this year is the ancient Silk Road trade route , a number of thematically related ...