The Silk Road ... route connecting the ancient world, but also a synonym for economic and cultural exchanges between the Western world and the oriental world. The Silk Road was an international ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... Migration routes might have influenced the genetic makeup of ancient ...

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 ...

That route from the Persian Gulf to Inner Mongolia was just one of many making up the ancient network of the Silk Road - or, more accurately, Silk Roads - that for centuries connected the cities ...

The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

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 ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient ... Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, discover what makes this former trading route ...

Kuwait said about 73 percent of the work on its ambitious $3-billion Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Causeway project (also known as The Subbiya bridge), has been completed and the 36-km-long ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...