Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

My rail tour through Central Asia—Jewels of the Silk Road, offered by Golden Eagle ... in the evenings, top-notch background music played by Artur Bobikyan, an accomplished Armenian concert ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he's taking his little prison plant with him. After newly-minted president ...

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an ...

He wrote it down, creating the first thorough account of China and the Silk Road for Europeans, who had never heard or even imagined it in such detail before. Video written and narrated by Anna ...

Travel Smart travels along the fabled Silk Road, taking a look at the sights ... recent seismic world history with its ...

Adnan Durani started his company Saffron Road in 2010 to bring foods from different cultures of the Silk Road to mainstream America. Nikki Battiste spoke to him about how his background as an ...

Chongqing, a municipality in Southwest China with over 32 million people, serves an intersection point for trade and projects involved in the Belt and Road Initiative and the Yangtze River ...

Embark on a musical journey around the world with The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma: Live from Tanglewood, filmed as the Silk Road Ensemble celebrated 15 years together with a summer concert at ...