The $3.4 billion project, spearheaded by the Chinese state-owned COSCO, will reduce distance and costs and is a key part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the New Silk Road ...
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...
My rail tour through Central Asia—Jewels of the Silk Road, offered by Golden Eagle Luxury ... I hovered on the periphery like the new kid in school until the trip leader, Anna Kochetkova ...
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.