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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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.

Archaeologists have discovered two incredible 1,324-year-old forgotten cities abandoned on the ancient Silk Road. Founded in early mediaeval times in southeastern Uzbekistan, Archaeologists say ...

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 ...

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

The Hami Pterosaur-Yardang National Geopark, located on the ancient Silk Road, is one of the world's largest and most spectacular Yardang landform groupings, with the largest concentration of ...

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 ...