Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

Students will explore elements of trade ... Silk Roads • Students will gain and understanding of trade dynamic of the Silk Roads 1. With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) ...

And in fact, that long predates the major trade routes along those roads. The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to around 200 BC, meaning that for centuries before that, these same paths ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

The Mongols, who ruled a vast empire, safeguarded a northern Silk Road land route that crossed the Eurasian steppes. Sea routes, important for trade and for communication, may also be considered part ...

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...