(CNN) — Located in north-central China, the ancient city of Xi’an ... It safeguarded a city where many travelers’ Silk Road journeys began, one 13 Chinese dynasties chose as their capital.

The "Silk Road" refers to a series of routes that crisscrossed Eurasia from the first millennium B.C.E. through the middle of the second millennium C.E. The best known segment of the Silk Road began ...

However, it was mined and traded along the Silk Road in antiquity, the researchers noted. China and Europe, the beginning and end of the Silk Road, were the two most significant cinnabar-producing ...

Two major archaeological sites along the ancient Silk Road opened to the public in northwest China on Thursday ... present an overall and more diverse picture of the Silk Road culture to the ...

Michael Wood looks at the opening of the Silk Road & 'the beginnings of universal ... More than 1300 years ago, during China’s brilliant Tang dynasty, this was a crossroads of the world ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...