The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Old Remains of 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' Reveal Rare Belief That Souls Resided in Teeth The Silk Road, a huge network ...

At its geographic crossroads in Central Asia, where kingdoms of middlemen grew rich, the Silk Road’s goods flowed radially in all directions. North to the Russian principalities. South to Persia ...

Freight companies ‘dare not’ use the railway after Russia tightened sanctions and impounded huge volumes of Europe-bound ...

The "Silk Road" refers to a series of routes that crisscrossed Eurasia ... Korean and Japanese ships crossing the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan brought continental goods to Japan. The ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

In 1859, when Japan reopened its doors after more than two centuries of isolation, goods flowed in and out ... Sheila Cliffe from the UK follows the Silk Road from northern Kanto, once a major ...

the labyrinthine alleys link the stalls of Kumtepa to provide goods for all. But this bustling bazaar is not just a space for buying and selling—here, the legacy of the Silk Road comes alive ...

Five objects from the British Museum tell the story of the movement of goods and ideas, along the Silk Road out of China, to Korea and even as far as East Anglia ...