After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

While tracing the ancient Silk Road through Central Asia on foot, National Geographic writer Paul Salopek was regaled with tales of these jinn. One night, under clear skies in the sprawling ...

Coming at last to China on our west-to-east survey of the ancient faith of the Silk Road, we find that rulers worshipped their own ancestors in great ancestral temples; they were joined by commoners ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

The fabled Silk Routes were a series of global trade ... We’ll take a whirlwind tour of the arts and cultures that dazzled the ancient world. Led by Professor Sudharshan Durayappah, who teaches ...