an infamous desert the size of Arizona that for centuries has thinned the ranks of passing caravans on the Silk Road, the most famous trade route in history for more than 2,200 years. Even now its ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

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 ...

Moving trade goods along the ancient Silk Roads was made difficult by the fierce climatic and geographical conditions of desert and mountain regions along vast distances. With transportation limited ...

As an archaeologist enamored with mountain history, I needed to learn more, so two years later, I found myself on the Zoji La in the footsteps of Silk Road traders who, like us, hoped to make it ...

Conjuring up images of merchants on camel-led caravans ... ending in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi’an. The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along ...

Students will explore elements of trade along the Silk Roads by examining the products of various locations along the route--production, influences of resources and environment, challenges of ...