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 ...

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 ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade ... along the Silk Road and beyond. "We could really change the map of urban development in medieval ...

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 ...

Much analysis is missing perhaps the most important potential role of China’s Silk Road aspirations.

A map of the Silk Road. Encyclopædia Britannica Merriam-Webster ... What happens when the biggest forces of global history ...

URUMQI, 7 April (BelTA - China Daily) - Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on ...