After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

Another study, led by Yue Li, revealed the emergence and adoption of horse riding in the region ... in significant sites along the ancient Silk Road and explore new systems and technologies ...

For archaeologists, the tombs and their burial objects became a sort of time capsule, as they are primary sources of information about daily lives in ancient China. Slide 1: Striding cavalry horse ...

As an archaeologist enamored with mountain history, I needed to learn more, so two years later, I found myself on the Zoji La in the footsteps of Silk Road traders who, like us, hoped to make it ...

The ancient passageway ... with the legendary Silk Road to the north. China had something Tibet wanted: tea. Tibet had something China desperately needed: horses. Today the trail lives on in ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

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 ...