A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Here are five epic routes that promise adventure and discovery. The Silk Road, which stretched from China to Mediterranean, ...

The Silk Road enabled economic, cultural, religious and political exchanges between East and West, as the caravans that traversed its pathways toted not only a panoply of products but also people ...

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—not just ...

“The Silk Road was a complicated complex representing in some cases actual pathways the caravans could traverse, but also general exchange between East Asia and Europe. If you ask me, as an ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ptolemy notes that the Stone Tower was the most important landmark along the route, an essential stop for the caravans traveling the arduous and dangerous journey of the Silk Road. There, travelers ...

Both exhibitions promote the idea of the Silk Road as an east-west network of superhighways linking eastern Asia with western Europe in a free-flowing movement of goods and ideas. It is a deeply ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to ...