The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...
High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the Silk Road more than 1,000 years ago. The team of researchers—led by Michael ...
Figure 1. Geographical map of the six populations along the Silk Road investigated in the study. Colored dots refer to real geographical locations, carrots and DNA icons represent instead the “food” ...
Last May, when our known world was one way, we began planning these stories. By last month, when we were finishing work on this issue, the world was another way. By Hanya Yanagihara LIKE OUR JOURNEY ...