Invented in China around 5,600 years ago, silk was the slipperiest, most mysterious material in the ancient world. Fashioned from the twisted threads of the cocoons of the mulberry silkworm, the ...

Album Over time, mathematics, languages, enslaved people, inventions, and the Black Death have traveled the routes. Although the use of the Silk Roads would rise and fall, Rome and Han China ...

Chinese silk not only is crafted through ingenious technological inventions but also embodies profound philosophical ideologies, reflecting the Chinese interpretation of life, death, and the harmony ...

Long ago, people in China created brilliant inventions that we still rely on today. Paper and compasses are two of these influential tools. People used to write on bamboo or silk, but these were ...

Both have as their theme the idea of the Silk Road, an-overland trade route said to stretch ever since antiquity all the way across Asia from China to Turkey and hence to Mediterranean Europe. The ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...