Archaeology & History China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds The analysis found the oldest domestic cat dated to the Tang Dynasty, when trade was at its ...

DNA analysis indicates that domestic cats were brought to China by Silk Road traders, with evidence suggesting they were transported in small cages from the Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia ...

According to a study recently published on the preprint server bioRxiv, cats were one of the many assets that traveled east on the famous Silk Road, the lengthy trading network that connected Asia ...

On Monday, Petro said Colombia would join the Belt and Road Initiative launched by Xi in 2013 to recreate the ancient Silk Road and build China's trade and infrastructure links with the world.