Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the way we think about the past. Silk Roads, which opens at the British Museum ...

Center of the World: China and the Silk Road. October 14, ... China, early or mid-Tang dynasty, late 7th–early 8th century, cast bronze and applied gold plaque with repoussé, chased, and ring-punched ...

This ancient Silk Road town was almost lost to time. ... The name of Khotan resonated with Western explorers in the 19th century because famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo visited it in 1274.

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 ...

At its most prosaic, the Silk Road was a series of trade routes that began thousands of years before the Common Era and lasted until (depending on who you ask) the 15th or 16th century (though ...

As early as 2,000 years ago, the Maritime Silk Road started from China's south-east coastal regions, traversing a vast expanse of oceans and seas to countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe ...

This 21st-century “silk route” is most clearly symbolized by the newly inaugurated rail-link between Istanbul and Baku – dubbed the “Iron Silk Road” – which parallels the even more ...

BEIJING, July 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on advantages in history, location, industry and humanities, the city of Quanzhou in southeast China's ...

HANGZHOU, China, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The “Verdant Miles: The Steppe Silk Road in the 10th to 12th Century” exhibition is officially about to open on July 11 at China National Silk Museum, ...