Guyuan, sitting at the foothills of the Liupan Mountains south of Ningxia, was an intersection for agrarian and nomadic ...

Co-organized by the UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia and CNSM, this training also served as a design workshop for the activation and innovation of Silk Road cultural heritage as part of "2025 ...

Christopher Wilton-Steer A version of this article appears in print on July 27, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Up Close / ‘The Silk Road,’ by Christopher Wilton-Steer.

The National Road Heritage Foundation will celebrate the Grand Opening of the National Road Museum, 214 N. Main St., Boonsboro, on Saturday, June 21.

The kingdom’s rulers maintained a vital maritime Silk Road staging post on the Musi River, which today runs through the city of a 1.8 million people before emptying out into the Java Sea.

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some small way, its modern equivalent.

The reopening of Barstow’s Route 66 Mother Road Museum on March 22, 2025, is expected to draw visitors from California and across the country.

It also shows that even years after Silk Road was shuttered in 2015, drug dealers who used it become multi-millionaires have enjoyed the fruits of their labors for nearly a decade.

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the Silk Road.

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic red substance that contains mercury.

A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago The animals were likely gifted to some elites, then spread throughout the region ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht attended a March 4 joint session of US Congress as a guest of Representative Thomas Massie.