Trade routes have been the lifeblood of civilizations for thousands of years, connecting cultures, economies, and people ...

Both exhibitions promote the idea of the Silk Road as an east-west network of superhighways ... Yet in the catalog of the British Library show, the map highlights the network of roads running east to ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient ... who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the modern-day Uzbekistan.

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate word maps that act as creative ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

When geographer Sven Hedin set out from the city of Khotan (today Hotan) in western China ... noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the route that once carried trade between ...

Scholars studying the Silk Road have traditionally seen mountain ranges as obstacles standing in the way of merchants who plied the trade routes that connected China and western Eurasia.