After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation ...

In the 19th century, when the name of Silk Road was first used by a German geographer, it just included the land road from China's Xinjiang to central Asia. Later it was expanded gradually and ...

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

Often seen as one of the first truly global trade routes, the Silk Road – actually ... horses of Central Asia. The road’s heyday ended around the 15th Century AD, as traders from the west ...

The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue ... Although German geographers first coined the term “Silk Roads” in the early-19th century to describe the trade in silk between Han-dynasty ...

The Silk Road, like the Milky Way, is not, alas, an entirely literal entity. It’s a branding exercise, a way of making coherent a whole network of ancient trade routes that stretched east and ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs ...