The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese ... temples and some other high building can still be found here. More than 100 mummies were unearthed in the ancient Astala group ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of two medieval cities hidden in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290 ... the plague ...

[Photo/Xinhua] URUMQI -- Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost civilisations. Samarkand’s Silk Road past is ...

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 ...