revealing them as two of the largest cities on the mountainous part of that world-changing path, or indeed anywhere at such ...

A thousand years ago, inhabitants of two mountain-top cities in modern-day Uzbekistan experienced ... major urban centers that lay on medieval Silk Road trading routes. Drone-borne scanning ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths, was historically thought to have linked lowland cities across Central Asia, facilitating the exchange of goods, technology, and ideas ...

At least 2,500 years old, with a current population of 600,000, Samarkand is one of the most iconic cities of the Silk Road, and its most iconic site is Registan Square, where the awe that had ...

BEIJING, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and silk production are helping the ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is seen as a ‘modern Silk Road’ trading route that may kick start a new era of globalization, and relations with its regional neighbours are crucial to its ...

The third movement tries to showcase the brilliance and cultural fusion of the Silk Road, while the fourth depicts the modern hanhai landscape and vitality, extolling the spirit of the Silk Road ...

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.