The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions flowed between this overland trade route connecting the Far East, China ...

A road less traveled The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the ...

Kyrgyzstan's second largest city, Osh, is celebrating its 3,000th anniversary. The ancient Silk Route city continues to occupy a unique place among Central Asia's ancient towns, and RFE/RL ...

(The controversy behind this Silk Road city’s ancient wonders.) Oasis trade hub After several weeks, Stein established that as many as 14 Buddhist temples had once dominated the town.

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia.

An elegant, lavishly illustrated history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world. Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing book - created in ...

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds of years ago.

Meloni pulled Italy out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative — whose name refers to the ancient overland trade route — in December, but signed an agreement Sunday that provides a new path for ...