One of the first and most important empires to participate in trade along the Silk Road was the Parthian Empire. Until its collapse in 224 CE, the Parthian Empire served as an essential ...

But over a millennium ago, it was one of the richest cities on the infamous trade route known as the Silk Road. Back in the ... group who had formed a massive empire, outlined in red below ...

Spy satellite imagery is revealing lost Silk Road outposts and the traces ... These canals were likely built during the Parthian Empire and helped agriculture to flourish. The imagery has also ...

“It was summer.” And, of course, there is a third empire looming at the end of the Silk Road: China. In Naryn, I watched as truckers stopped in the white dusk of early winter to lay out chains ...

At its zenith, the Parthian Empire extended from the northern Euphrates River (modern central-eastern Turkey) to present-day Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Positioned along the Silk Road, the ...

The Silk Road was never really a road at all ... carried a slow trickle of trade between the Near East and the Chinese empire over millennia. The arid conditions along the trail have helped ...

The Kushan Empire, which rose in the 1st century AD, covered most of modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as parts of India and Iran, becoming a crucial hub along ...

Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists have completed the first phase of a joint project to excavate the remains of an ancient empire on the Silk Road. The dig in Surxondaryo, a region in southern Uzbek ...