In Central Asia, the new trains travel back in time. As early as the second century B.C., an important network of trading routes known as the Silk Road linked Europe and East Asia.

The main 21st-century rail-and-oil trade route passes through central Azerbaijan’s second city, Ganja, whose silk road credentials are less publicized. However, this too was also an historically ...

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HANGZHOU, China, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Verdant Miles: The Steppe Silk Road in the 10th to 12th Century" exhibition is officially about to open on Ju ...

Transnational cultural encounters in China have become the “21 st-century Silk Road,” contends a leading anthropologist scheduled to speak at CU-Boulder on Feb. 7. Professor Lisa Rofel Lisa Rofel, ...

In 1998, the American cellist Yo-Yo Ma started to wonder if the Silk Road could offer a model for an alternate form of globalization, in which strangers from the lands crossed by ancient trade ...