A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

This double CD features neither Yo-Yo Ma’s cello nor the global orchestra he recruited for his Silk Road project. Instead its 47 ethnographic recordings expose the endeavor’s roots by tracing ...

Drive the Silk Road from Venice to Beijing in a caravan of Land Rovers (fitted with GPS, maps, GMRS Radio Walkie-Talkies.) This is their sixth year. Operated by AAST only ...

Ankara. The Silk Road Truck Caravan 2010, jointly organised by the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) with the support of its Member States and the International Road Transport Union (IRU ...

To most Westerners, the Silk Road conjures images of exoticism: caravans of spices and silks, open-air markets filled with brightly-clothed hawkers and merchants, rolled carpets stacked high, turbaned ...

and China already funneling no less than $40 billion to start building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Once again, everything converges towards the most ...

Before Azerbaijan was famous for oil, it was a land of silk and spices. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, bordered by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, it was an important ...

The Silk Road was the first global supply chain. The name conjures up images of camel caravans and silhouettes at sunset, crossing the hills laden with silk, tea, and porcelain bound for Istanbul and ...

The Silk Road was not just a single route ... Merchants, travelers, and caravans navigated treacherous terrains, deserts, and mountains to transport silk, spices, precious metals, textiles ...

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, would stop on ...