At the Bitcoin 2025 conference, collector Justin Sun gave Maurizio Cattelan's $6.2 million banana artwork to Silk Road ...

According to Yannick Lintz, co-curator and former director of Islamic Art at the Louvre, the Silk Road is at the heart ... accompanied by a series of wall paintings depicting the ancient city ...

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

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Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a ... of salt on the wall paintings' surface.

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically ... The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we uncover Samarkand ... In Konigil, craftsman Zarif Mukhtarov revives the lost art of Samarkand Silk Paper, prized for its durability.

The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians ...