The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

From falling traffic on China-Europe rail link to a Princeton nuclear physicist’s big move, here are highlights from SCMP’s ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

This signature is rare among domestic cats from Europe and Western Asia ... offering tantalizing clues about the origins of domestic cats in China. The Silk Road's heyday lasted between A.D. 500 and ...

Portugal's Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Paulo Rangel is expected to begin his visit to China on Monday, marking the first European foreign minister to visit China after the two sessions.

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.

On Friday evening, the symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai (Endless Desert) will make its debut at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. The symphony was created by brothers Zheng ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

However, it was mined and traded along the Silk Road in antiquity, the researchers noted. China and Europe, the beginning and end of the Silk Road, were the two most significant cinnabar-producing ...