Once a major world religion, Manichaeism spread across the Silk Road, blending elements of Christianity, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism. Founded by the prophet Mani in the 3rd century, it preached a ...

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 ... into Chinese folk religion, “regarded ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.