The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are barreling across the lush plains of Uzbekistan on a midsummer afternoon. Then, ...
The Russian Geographical Society says brick ruins, grain mills and a 13th-century Muslim necropolis at Toru-Aygyr beneath ...
Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain buried under mountain pastures for centuries. Light detection and ranging ...
The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...
This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. For a thousand years, horses and silver passed through the city ...
Rain and Rainbows: Taiwan Celebrates Pride as Hong Kong’s LGBTQ Rights Stall Containerized rail freight transport under China Rail Express (CR Express) between Europe and China is one of the flagship ...
Another interesting fact is that while last year marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations ...