The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
From falling traffic on China-Europe rail link to a Princeton nuclear physicist’s big move, here are highlights from SCMP’s ...
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...
The project is seen as a new Silk Road which, just like the ancient trade route, aims to link China to Europe. Italy's European Union allies and the United States have expressed concern at China's ...
Freight companies ‘dare not’ use the railway after Russia tightened sanctions and impounded huge volumes of Europe-bound ...
Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
The Silk Road, the ancient trading ... Now Hari Sreenivasan catches up… China’s plan to build veins of trade over land and sea into Europe and Asia may be the most significant global economic ...
This signature is rare among domestic cats from Europe and Western Asia ... clues about the origins of domestic cats in China. The Silk Road's heyday lasted between A.D. 500 and 800, hinting ...
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...