The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries ... was used instead of medals to commend royals in the 12th Century. When it boomed internationally in the 19th Century ...

In the 19th century, when the name of Silk Road was first used by a German geographer, it just included the land road from China's Xinjiang to central Asia. Later it was expanded gradually and ...

Journey through the ancient city of Samarkand where culinary rituals and timeless tales of the Silk Road converge—from ...

We've known for a long time that the Silk Road was vitally important in the developing world of the eighth century, but it is only relatively recently that it has secured its romantic reputation ...

The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE. A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with ...

Sarianidi was an expert in the rich Bronze Age civilizations of Bactria, later occupied by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C ... Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with ...