Rick Steves’s 1978 journey from Istanbul to Kathmandu reflects a spirit of edgy wanderlust at odds with his image as a folksy ...
Join us as we retrace the route that inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The days of Silk Road traders journeying between Europe and Asia were fading into history when, in the last half of the ...
It’s jinn. A few useful addenda to some standard Silk Road myths: It wasn’t a road. Less a highway, it was a diffuse web, a shifting skein of thousands of camel trails, mountain-pass ...
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2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were painted with a toxic substanceArchaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study findsHow and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...
Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...
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