Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

A map of the ancient Silk Road that dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is unrolled by antiquities preservation personnel. The historic, 30-meter-long map, painted on silk, was donated on ...

Recent infrastructure investments in Silk Road countries are putting the historic pathway back on the map. As Andrew MacLeod writes, a trip down the ancient route is not only a glimpse into ...

Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the ...

Ask students to help map the following cities: Chang' An (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan (or Turpan), Kashgar, the Ferghana Valley, Baghdad, Damascus, Rome, and Delhi. (If you have time, see if the mapping ...

The 4,600-mile-long Silk Road was not one road, but a network of trade routes that took in snow-capped mountains, deserts, raging rivers, tree-shaded oases and fabled cities.

The South Asian part of the old Silk Road is not shown in this map at all, for example. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is perhaps one of the most measurable, ...

Silk Road Map Evolution will become a global city for the future, made up of extra long tunnels and highly sustainable and habitable towers of various forms.

When completed, like the ancient Silk Road, it will connect three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. The chain of infrastructure projects will create the world's largest economic corridor ...

The Silk Road was a series of ancient trading routes that spanned Asia, reaching as far as the Middle East and Europe. Self-organizing and vast, it fell under the control of various empires—but ...

A huge colored map of the Silk Road from a royal court of the mid-Ming Dynasty was officially welcomed home at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Thursday. The 30-meter-long by 59-centimeter-wide ...