Thus commerce along the legendary Silk Road flourished as it did for some ... spice trade and restored its centrality with a host of modern wares. As opportunities closed in the United States ...

The ancient route explored in SBS documentary series The Silk Road is today being seismically modernised. Trains shifting modern commodities are hardly as exotic a sell as Marco Polo and fine silks.

Chinese president Xi Jinping has revealed plans for the world's largest-sprawling infrastructure project – the Belt and Road – which aims to develop trade links between China, Central Asia ...

But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously predicted. Using modern drone mapping technology known as LiDAR — light detection and ranging equipment — the team ...

Some calligraphy is a late 20th-century addition, while newly tiled sections use modern designs that poorly ... plastered Silk Road branding across the country, and—most notably—carried ...

KHORGOS, China -- Trade is thriving along the "modern Silk Road," which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing ...