As his journey around the world continues, writer Paul Salopek encounters the enduring spirits of one of history’s great trade routes. A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul ...

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 ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

From the country’s incredible monuments to its bustling bazaars and Silk Road, here are your not-to-miss experiences in Uzbekistan. With the debut of high-speed trains providing connectivity to ...

The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions ...

The fabled Silk Routes were a series of global trade networks that transported luxury goods, decorative objects, people and ideas across some of history’s most extraordinary civilizations.

In ancient times, trekking from one end of the country to the other was considered hard. Travelling to a different country, then, was thought of as tremendously difficult. There were no cars, no ...

Researchers found the remains of a woman over 2,000 years old in northwest China with red-dyed teeth thanks to the use of cinnabar, a mineral composed of mercury sulfide. This is the first documented ...