Perched in the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains, Zhangye Danxia National Geopark occupies a high, windswept shelf ...

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

Various artists The Silk Road, A Musical Caravan (Smithsonian Folkways recordings) This double CD features neither Yo-Yo Ma’s cello nor the global orchestra he recruited for his Silk Road project.

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 ...

Sogdian caravan merchants traveled far and wide along the Silk Road, and the Sogdian language appears to have been used as a common tongue along the route. Along with their wares, the Sogdians likely ...

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) in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...