Travelling the Silk Road brings to life one of the greatest trading routes ... home of prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and Baghdad, a fertile hub of commerce and scholarship ...

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...

The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, with the early origins of the route emerging during the Han Dynasty in 206 BC. This was ...

From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route ... Silk Road, ...

Kuwait said about 73 percent of the work on its ambitious $3-billion Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Causeway project (also known as The Subbiya bridge), has been completed and the 36-km-long ...

Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route. The country is planning ...

New research suggests that domestic cats first appeared in China around 600 CE, likely arriving via the Silk Road trade route. The study, which analyzed 22 feline remains from 14 archaeological ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...