The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

Yet another example of an artistic tradition that traveled the Silk Road is blue-and-white porcelain, which was produced in China from about the 13th century CE onward. Islamic potters decorated early ...

segments of the Silk Road continued to exist regionally in places like Ladakh well into the 20th Century. A few days after our hair-raising crossing of Zoji La, Hussain and I sat at a small cafe ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... were in contact with Scandinavian ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries ... was used instead of medals to commend royals in the 12th Century. When it boomed internationally in the 19th Century ...

This chilly, wild landscape was once home to two sprawling cities, whose markets bustled with travellers from the Silk Road trade ... But back in the 8th century, the inhabitants used their ...

Paper was invented during the Han dynasty, probably just at the time the Silk Road trade was beginning to flourish. (Many accounts ascribe the invention of paper to a Latter Han official at the ...