It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started ... works of research in the history of ancient Xiyu, India and the Silk Road. From 1222 to 1223, Yilu Chucai ...

At one point, Japan was the world's biggest exporter. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila Cliffe from the UK follows the Silk Road from northern Kanto, once a major production area ...

[PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY] The exhibition at the British Museum explores 500 years of Silk Road history (500-1,000 AD ... it also serves as a conduit to channel exoticness, casting a veil of ...

Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten backwater in the current of global news. Lightly populated, underdeveloped, and mostly authoritarian ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of two medieval cities hidden in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

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 ...

"The place of the Silk Road in history - it's almost impossible to exaggerate its importance, I think, in the movement of peoples, the movement of goods, the transport of inventions in particular ...

"The place of the Silk Road in history - it's almost impossible to exaggerate its importance, I think, in the movement of peoples, the movement of goods, the transport of inventions in particular ...