Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

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

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

The archaeological finds from western China act as entry points to introduce students to the rich cultural and artistic exchanges on the Silk Roads. The students first encounter the artifacts through ...

This question becomes even more compelling as the public dialog between the U.S. and China grows increasingly hostile and confrontational. Even without the complications of deteriorating political ...

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

Khotan is now in western China, but it was then a separate kingdom ... "The place of the Silk Road in history - it's almost impossible to exaggerate its importance, I think, in the movement ...

Call it "Calichina." In its never-ending quest to bring Europe just a little closer, the Chinese government is now promoting the idea of a Polar Silk Road over the top of Eurasia, passing Russia ...

The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...