Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 ...

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

Samarkand, once a bustling hub on the Silk Road, was also an epicentre of scientific discovery. In the 15th century, Ulugh Beg, a Timurid ruler and astronomer, built an advanced observatory where ...

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

The symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai is staged in Hami city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. CHINA DAILY On Friday evening, the symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai (Endless Desert) will make its ...

The Silk Road was a network of land and sea-based trade routes that connected parts of the African, Asian, and European ...

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

The pempek restaurants in the Plaju neighborood were full to the gills in early March. Palembang chefs pulverized mudfish ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...

This news delighted everyone, in that smallpox had plagued humanity for centuries. Human ingenuity had defeated smallpox, a triumph of science, of technology, and of a strategy.

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U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. Rating: In early March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened sweeping tariffs on imports from ...