A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...

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

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

Tourists view murals in the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, ...

Samarkand’s Silk Road past is woven into its present. At Registan Square, once a bustling marketplace, researcher Armida Nazaryan explains its role as a trade hub between East and West.