More recently, with a renewed interest in Silk Road studies, some scholars have suggested that ... a kind of ornamented belt characteristic of the horse peoples, and even a couple of examples of silk ...

Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans "trickled" through this millennium-old network of trading routes ...

Niding was one of the last supply stations for caravans traveling west along the Tea Horse Road, a loosely defined ... the time pricier than porcelain and silk—for hardy horses, musk, and ...

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night. Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts ...

If you’re feeling adventurous, horse meat is a prized local delicacy with roots ... Enjoy a camel trek along the ancient caravan Silk Road routes traders would’ve braved and explore the golden dunes, ...

Niding was a last supply station for caravans travelling west along the Tea Horse Road, a millennium-old and loosely defined ... exchange pu-erh tea – back then pricier than porcelain and silk – for ...

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans ... people weren’t the barbarian horse-riding hordes that history has ...

“The Silk Road was a complicated complex representing in some cases actual pathways the caravans could traverse, but also general exchange between East Asia and Europe. If you ask me, as an ...

Chaffetz suggests the Silk Road should really be called the ... end of Asia to the other had shared the cult of the horse. Now the flow of caravans criss-crossing the steppes ceased.

“What we now call the Silk Road,” he writes, “should more accurately be called the Horse Road ... route that linked Europe—by arduous caravan expeditions and flights of the imagination ...