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 dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

These 18th-century masterpieces had once adorned a ... perspective on the historic maritime trade hub. “The Maritime Silk Road – Discover the Mystical Seas and Encounter the Treasures of ...

The scent of cardamom and saffron drifts from the kitchen of Sharjah's Bait Elowal, echoing the UAE's past as a vital node ...

But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets ... activist find himself becoming one of the 21st century’s most notorious drug lords? And why did Donald Trump offer ...

For Black History Month, I set out to see how many road names around here were named for Black folks in our city.

This piece first ran in March 2021 for the release of the film Silk Road, chronicling Ross Ulbricht ... contraband-trading operation of the century – but he’s not who you might expect.

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, ...