As silk fabrics became all the rage in imperial Rome, explorers and merchants opened up land and sea routes, fostering not only commerce but a robust exchange of wisdom and beliefs.

Commonly called the Silk Road, this terrestrial and aquatic system spanned as many as 6,000 miles and connected countless territories, from China and India to Iran and Italy. Crossing through the ...

The Great Silk Route, or Silk Road, was the fabled overland supply chain that famously allowed the supply of Chinese goods to reach ancient Rome from the second century BCE.

People, products, philosophies and pathogens all toured the Silk Road, but academics almost always site silk as the epitome of the exchange between East and West, so much so that the textile now ...

The Silk Road conjures images of caravans, desert steppes and adventurers like Marco Polo navigating the ancient trading routes connecting China with India, the Middle East ... cotton, gems, teak and ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...

East-West trade is booming across the Caucasus and many are hailing it as the latest incarnation of the Silk Road or Great Silk Route, the overland supply chain that allowed the supply of Chinese ...