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Editor’s Note: The Astana Times continues its Forgotten Cities of the Silk Road series, exploring Kazakhstan’s tentative ...
These traders had to eat on the go, and the foods they brought with them were the ancient-world equivalent of instant ramen ...
Expect a Hollywood throwdown for the role of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged Silk Road drug-trafficking kingpin who was arrested at a San Francisco library in 2013. Publisher Portfolio ...
Nick Robinson, the wholesome, all-American-seeming star of “Love, Simon” and “Jurassic World,” plays an unlikely drug trafficker in “Silk Road.” The film tells the true story of Ross ...
Dalrymple spent 20 years writing The Company Quartet, his four-volume deep dive into the rise and fall of the East India Company. Even if finishing the quartet wasn't reason enough, the passing of his ...
From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Join CSIS for a discussion with Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and author Jonathan Hillman ...
More than 20 illustrators at home and abroad, including Italy, France, Brazil and Singapore, worked together to create illustrations for China in Comics: Journey of Friendship to a Shared Future ...
Overall, the book provides a thoughtful set of insights, describing diverse struggles for key waters and links among seemingly disparate areas. At a time when Eurasian waters are roiling with tensions ...
The term would later appear in the title of a 1938 book by Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin, The Silk Road: Ten Thousand Miles Through Central Asia, which maps the author’s 10,000-mile ...
Sailer’s new book, “The Polar Silk Road,” explores the Arctic through an architectural lens.Over the course of four years, the photographer visited Canada, Norway, Greenland and Iceland ...