The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries ... was used instead of medals to commend royals in the 12th Century. When it boomed internationally in the 19th Century ...

Just as powerful empires fought for control of the Silk Road’s riches centuries ago, Asia’s fulcrum remains a cockpit of 21st-century geopolitics. The United States, China, and Russia each ...

Journey through the ancient city of Samarkand where culinary rituals and timeless tales of the Silk Road converge—from ...

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The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE. A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with ...

In the 19th century, when the name of Silk Road was first used by a German geographer, it just included the land road from China's Xinjiang to central Asia. Later it was expanded gradually and ...

developed their own Silk Road feature for 20 th Century Fox, which never came to fruition. Meanwhile, Bill & Ted star Alex Winter directed the Ulbricht doc Deep Web a decade ago, with Keanu Reeves ...

FUZHOU, China, Dec. 14. From December 8th to 12th, the 8th Silk Road International Film Festival was held in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China. The event was sponsored by China Media Group ...

The city changed hands many times over its long history, but remained a vibrant hub of exchange until the 11th century, after which its role in Silk Road trade began to decline. The Silk Road routes ...