Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago, followers of ...

Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change, researchers have found. Dating back to the 4th century, ...

TO COINCIDE with the 36th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which opens Wednesday on the Mall and whose focus this year is the ancient Silk Road trade route , a number of thematically related ...

Pages from of one of the oldest Qurans in existence, and a painting described as Uzbekistan’s “Mona Lisa,” are among the historic treasures on show at a new exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about this abandoned ancient enclave? A Buddhist temple at Dandan-Oilik was first ...

Artwork and statues in China’s Dunhuang caves have survived sandstorms, political upheaval and tourists for more than a millennium. Now preservationists fear they’re facing their most unrelenting foe ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle Kingdom In the customs hangar where our minibus is being held on the border ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, researchers using new remote sensing technology have discovered a series of cities including a major medieval metropolis “hidden in plain site” above the ancient Silk ...

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road... Ancient cave art along China's silk road is damaged in ...