Silk was only its brand. A thousand and one other products swayed on camelback along the Silk Road’s sprawling distribution system. Chinese gunpowder. Venetian glass. Samarqand paper.

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 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 ...

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 ...