On the Golden Eagle train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

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 ...

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

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

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

Dubbed "the Oriental Swan Lake", the Chinese classic dance drama Silk Road will be staged at the Guangdong Friendship Theater ...

In addition to its stunning gardens and flowing canals, Suzhou has been at the centre of China’s illustrious ... established trade route called the Silk Road. Early on in its invention, demand ...

[PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY] As The Voyage of the Silk Road crescendoed to its peak, those familiar with Chinese regional culture might have found themselves haunted by the image of the rugged ...

Even now its vast gantlet of blistering light and thorn scrub presents a formidable barrier to travel ... camelback along the Silk Road’s sprawling distribution system. Chinese gunpowder.

between 775 and 940 C.E. That cat is the oldest house cat ever found on the Silk Road. This led the researchers to believe that their Chinese samples have roots in the Middle East and arrived in ...