The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - A new exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week. Showcasing a range of artefacts including ...

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.

On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia. But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously ...

These realities do not mar Lahore’s five spreads in THE SILK ROAD: A Living History (Hemeria, $55), a sometimes beautiful travelogue of landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once ...

The Silk Road—which existed from 114 B.C. to 1450 A.D.—was a vital and expansive trade route that connected the Eastern and Western worlds ...

Scholars studying the Silk Road have traditionally seen mountain ranges as obstacles standing in the way of merchants who plied the trade routes that connected China and western Eurasia. Now, a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A new exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week. Showcasing a range of artefacts including Chinese ...