ASTANA — Beneath the streets of modern-day Turkistan lies the ancient settlement of Yassy-Turkistan, an archaeological ...

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia. Aerial light ...

The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

May 11, 2020. This year, T’s spring Travel issue is devoted to just five stories, each an account of its writer’s journey along a different section of the Silk Road — the ancient network of ...

The Silk Road conjures images of caravans, desert steppes and adventurers like Marco Polo navigating the ancient trading routes connecting China with India, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. China’s ...

At its most prosaic, the Silk Road was a series of trade routes that began thousands of years before the Common Era and lasted until (depending on who you ask) the 15th or 16th century (though ...

To enhance your trip, visit on Sunday afternoons, when members of the Silk Road Ensemble, the musical group spearheaded by Yo-Yo Ma, will play concerts at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30pm. —Julia Israel.

First evidence of unknown ancient ‘Israeli Silk Road’ uncovered in Arava trash dump Results from sifting 1,600-year-old garbage during a first excavation season at Nahal Omer suggest luxury ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for further cooperation with Italy on Monday at a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, saying the two countries were the ends of the ...

A “mixed” memoirist’s Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary Sofia Samatar’s new memoir, ‘The White Mosque,’ finds her on the Silk Road, site of an earlier pilgrimage of ...