The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

A total of 110 artifacts, including pottery and bronze items, unearthed from the Beiting Ancient City site, a key hub along the ancient Silk Road in today's Xinjiang Uygur ­Autonomous Region in ...

Related: Archaeologists Unearth Hundreds of Pre-Columbian Weapons, Artifacts. Years after the burial site was established, Turpan would become one of the key destinations on the Silk Road trade route.

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.

Along the ancient Silk Road, glimpses of the old and new. 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.

Lanzhou, China, is one of the ancient Silk Road cities in the northwestern part of China, known for its agriculture, textiles, and more recently, its nuclear power industry. It is known as a cultural ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

A road less traveled. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...

Because of their position between East and West Asia, the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Bukhara served as important Silk Road hubs. Much later, they became cities in the Soviet republic of ...

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.