The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.
There aren’t really a lot of show stopping items on display – millennia-old silk is basically hard and brown – but the various artefacts relative to each waypoint on the ‘road’ build up ...
The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...
The ancient Silk Road facilitated the diffusion of various kinds of fruits, vegetables, spices and culinary traditions which we now take for granted. For example, as Professor Xi pointed out ...
The 11th Silk Road Film Festival kicks off in Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi province on Sept 21, 2024. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The 11th Silk Road Film Festival ...
A dream turns into reality' Cammarota carries an old, well-read copy of The Travels ... At the Aksu Museum, her attention was drawn to a map of the Silk Road. Standing before it, Cammarota couldn ...