Chef Fadi and historian Kotoz learn about Silk Road merchants who brought exotic spices to Europe and the Arab world.

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Freight companies ‘dare not’ use the railway after Russia tightened sanctions and impounded huge volumes of Europe-bound ...

A young woman who lived and died more than 2,000 years ago left behind remains in China that are unlike any we've seen ...

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

From falling traffic on China-Europe rail link to a Princeton nuclear physicist’s big move, here are highlights from SCMP’s ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

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 ...

The newly reinstalled arts of China gallery on NOMA’s third floor showcases works spanning over 5,000 years, dating back to ...