A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Kazakhstan is where Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the initiative of the Silk Road ... both Xian Xinghai Boulevard and Baikadamov Boulevard in Almaty, as well as a road dedicated ...

Advances in archaeogenetics (the study of ancient DNA to investigate the human past) have revealed unexpected ... making them forerunners of the Silk Road dynamic. This re-evaluation has also ...

The 78-year-old sits at the piano and sings and scats his way through both with the air of a man who might prefer to be watching the Scissor Sisters across the road at the Hydro. On this evidence ...

The Belt and Road Initiative was first proposed ... but stories of legendary characters such as Fa Xian, Xuan Zang, Alopen Abraham and Zheng He are more delightful. Since the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), ...

With his gorgeous photography, Christopher Wilton-Steer documents the last leg of his 40,000km journey along the Silk Road. In his recently published book, he travels eastward from Italy all the ...

Telling the Stories and Spreading the Spirit of the Silk Road The Fourth Silk Road Friendship Ceremony was held in Kuqa, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on May 28th. At the ...

Drawing a parallel with the Ottoman empire’s overtaxing of the Silk Road, leading to Europe seeking new routes to the Indies, is indeed pertinent. However, the real advent of the long Ottoman ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has a message for the crypto community: if you want to maintain your freedom, you must remain unified and decentralized, and you must be prepared ...