Archaeologists have mapped two lost cities of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan using drones and LiDAR. The fabled cities had lain ...

The findings also complicate the prevailing image of the Silk Road, which facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas among ...

The first-ever use of cutting-edge drone-based lidar in Central Asia allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of ...

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.

Two landmark exhibitions reveal how Europe’s big institutions are rethinking their collections for the 21st century ...

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 ...

Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the ...

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 ...