Indians and Arabs traded along the southern sea routes, and in the 16th century Portuguese and other Europeans sailed to East Asia. Many important scientific and technological innovations migrated ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Shang city in Southern China, making it the oldest ever found in the region of Lingnan, famous for marking the departure point of the Silk Road.

"As the core fortress of three-level defense system of the Guangdong coastal defense system during the Ming Dynasty, Nanhai ...

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

The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. And where is the Qizilqum? Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan ...

Which areas did you visit? I went to Uzbekistan in 1993. My home base was Tashkent, largest city on the old Southern Silk Road, and I visited the high, mountain-ringed Ferghana Valley, which was ...

The current crop of “neo-realistic” south Indian films has no space for a vamp oozing ... Sona, Nirosha and many others — and more recently, Namitha — have all tried treading the Silk route but failed ...