Items from Nanhai No 1, which sank during the Southern Song dynasty and was found in 1987, tell us about life in the past.
Once upon a time, going for a Chinese meal in London meant Cantonese in Chinatown. That central London enclave, packed with ...
Until recently, my vague idea of the Silk Road, the trade link from ancient east Asia to the West, was of camels crossing ...
It was just after midnight when a phone call from an unknown number woke Dorine Núñez Ávila.
After spending more than a decade in prison, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht says the president gave him an "amazing blessing." (Credit: X /@RealRossU) State Department freezes new funding for nearly ...
The president promised to commute his sentence at the Libertarian Party’s convention in May. Now, he’s given him a full ...
Liubao tea gained widespread popularity in China during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the late Qing period, Chinese laborers traveling to Southeast Asia introduced this refreshing, stomach-soothing ...
From the ancient, rugged routes to the modern 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, trade routes between ... thanks to an extensive network of land, sea, and air transport systems.
When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.
This document underscored the primary maritime route of the “21st-Century Maritime Silk Road” (21st-MSR), which extends from the South China Sea, through the Indian Ocean, and onward to Europe (Peng ...