Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

The 30-meter-long by 59-centimeter-wide scroll, named the Landscape Map of the Silk Road, is painted on silk. It depicts trade routes starting at Jiayuguan - at the western end of the Great Wall ...

The ancient Silk Road increased trade across the known world, but the Road also offered far more than trade. One of its least anticipated benefits was the widespread exchange of knowledge ...

Once again, however, the map does not fully recreate the Silk Route as it does not show the forking of the road toward India. It reflects our reality even less, however, as it also ignores the CPEC.

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia. Aerial light ...

For centuries, China safeguarded the secret of silk production until the emergence, around 114 BCE, of the Silk Road, which is now the subject of a major exhibition at the British Museum (through ...

The New Silk Road is a project that predates Xi Jinping by more than an entire cycle of Chinese politics. China and the countries of Central Asia and Eastern Europe have been laying the groundwork ...

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 4 (Reuters Life!) - A exhibition about the ancient Silk Road trade route connecting Europe and Asia will open without artifacts and mummies from China that would have been the ...

A map of the ancient Silk Road that dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is unrolled by antiquities preservation personnel. The historic, 30-meter-long map, painted on silk, was donated on ...