Uzbekistan’s cultural gems are becoming more accessible with new trains. Here, how to see the Silk Road by rail.

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Amid the vast expanse of the Taklamakan Desert, a couple is part of the quiet force maintaining water stations along the ...

Members of the desert investigation team of the fourth national census of cultural relics hike in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region (ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY) The Taklamakan ...

For the past 28 years, a Chinese artist couple has traveled the silk road ... along the Silk Road. They departed from Dunhuang, across the renowned Lop-Nor dry basin and the Taklamakan desert ...

The Taklamakan Desert, China's largest desert and located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was once the central stage for numerous legends along the ancient Silk Road. However, as ...

In this video, we explore the surprising story behind one of China's boldest infrastructure projects, a highway cutting straight through the barren stretches of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts.

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an ...

Lidar scans reveal the city walls and defensive fortifications that once stood in Tugunbulak, a recently discovered medieval city along the Silk Road ... edge of the Taklamakan Desert, in ...

Whereas the lengthy overland, intercontinental Silk Road divided into northern and southern routes bypassing the Taklamakan Desert and Lop Nur. The Silk Road (or, more accurately, ‘roads’ or ...

Buddhism had spread to China from India through the ancient Silk Road and was thriving ... It was once a well-populated oasis in the Taklamakan Desert. Mogao Caves in Dunhuang.