The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

Much analysis is missing perhaps the most important potential role of China’s Silk Road aspirations.

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 ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

URUMQI, 7 April (BelTA - China Daily) - Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

"It is an epitome of ancient Buddhist beliefs and the Jiaohe Ruins were even more significant since they were once an important city along the Silk Road," Fang noted. The Jiaohe Ruins are also the ...

Archaeologists have discovered two incredible 1,324-year-old forgotten cities abandoned on the ancient Silk Road. Founded in early mediaeval times in southeastern Uzbekistan, Archaeologists say ...