A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

The Silk Road International Arts Festival, with its diverse range of performances and artistic expressions, demonstrates art's ability to bring people together across cultures and borders.

Uzbekistan’s cultural gems are becoming more accessible with new trains. Here, how to see the Silk Road by rail.

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

In this nostalgic and celebratory tribute to the cultural grandeur of the Silk Road, these musical threads ripple through both the initiated and uninitiated in Chinese traditional art and culture ...

XI'AN, China, Nov. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 10, the 10th Silk Road International Arts Festival ... a celebrated platform for high-caliber art and performances, bringing world-class ...

Art in the desertNumerous paintings ... The legend deftly links the town’s Buddhist piety and its prosperity on the Silk Road. Among the last datable items that Stein found were eighth-century ...

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically ... The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route ...

Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a genomic analysis of 22 ancient cat bones gathered from 14 sites across the ...