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

Nestled at the crossroads of ancient empires and bustling trade routes, the Fergana region is where history whispers through ...

Every now and again, an exhibition comes along that is so epic in scale and astonishing in ambition that it transforms the ...

An exhibition on the history of the Silk Road trading route at the British Museum has met with a chilly reception from one ...

After more than 850 days, traversing 14 countries across Eurasia, and covering 22,000 kilometers, some have called this ...

The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...

If you were asked to select five insects that have most profoundly altered humanity since Homo sapiens first fashioned tools ...

Two landmark exhibitions reveal how Europe’s big institutions are rethinking their collections for the 21st century ...

The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue Brunning ... These long-range networks date back millennia, enabling us to map the dissemination of rice and other foods, and the transmission ...

Taking you on trade routes from from Japan to Britain, this new exhibition proves just how vibrant the so-called Dark Ages really were ‘Ah, the Silk Road!’ you nod, sagely. That romanticised ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] From undulating sand dunes to rugged mountain ranges and ancient castles, Dahaidao — a 500-kilometer-long legendary route on the ancient Silk Road — has ...

the seventh Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Cultural Expo is set to take place in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu Province, on Saturday. Taking the theme "practicing the Global Civilization ...