A map of the ancient Silk Road that dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is unrolled by antiquities preservation personnel. The historic, 30-meter-long map, painted on silk, was donated on ...

Recent infrastructure investments in Silk Road countries are putting the historic pathway back on the map. As Andrew MacLeod writes, a trip down the ancient route is not only a glimpse into ...

Nomadic herders took the ancient Silk Road to new heights. Starting 4,000 years ago or more, Central Asian herders routinely migrated from highland pastures in summer to lowland areas in winter ...

Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

The Silk Road was a series of ancient trading routes that spanned Asia, ... When they compared their algorithmically-generated pathways with a map of 618 known Silk Road camps in the mountains, ...

The 4,600-mile-long Silk Road was not one road, but a network of trade routes that took in snow-capped mountains, deserts, raging rivers, tree-shaded oases and fabled cities.

Seeing the world — its history, its future — from another angle. From the East, and the old Silk Road. The cargo train travelled from eastern China through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan ...

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia. Aerial light ...

Between the fall of 2002 and the summer of the following year, much of Asia was in a state bordering on panic because of the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), also known as ...

Ancient feces proves infectious disease traveled along Silk Road 2,000 years ago "When I first saw the Chinese liver fluke egg down the microscope I knew that we had made a momentous discovery ...

A huge colored map of the Silk Road from a royal court of the mid-Ming Dynasty was officially welcomed home at the Forbidden City in Beijing on Thursday. The 30-meter-long by 59-centimeter-wide ...