The collection would later be recognised as one of India’s finest private Silk Road relics. Initially unsure how to handle the artefacts, the family received guidance from anthropologists Dr ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths ... which allowed researchers to map the buried structures without disturbing the fragile landscape. The findings, published in the ...

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 ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

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 ...

Join us as we retrace the route that inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The days of Silk Road traders journeying between Europe and Asia were fading into history when, in the last half of the ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...