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 ...

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 ...

Lu simply replied: “The question as to which people invented noodles is unimportant ... along the ancient trading route, the Silk Road, to China through Central Asia, Iran, Turkey and Greece ...

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