The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

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

In other words, India as vishwa guru ... “obscured by the seductively Sinocentric concept of the ‘Silk Road.’” He uses the phrase “Golden Road” in conceptual competition with ...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Strip away the sugarcoated rhetoric, and few phrases better capture the essence of the ...

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

They had found an abandoned treasure trove – a collection that would soon become recognised as one of the finest family-owned collections of Silk Road artefacts in India and a discovery that ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...

Last week two magnificent exhibitions opened in London. Both have as their theme the idea of the Silk Road, an-overland trade route said to stretch ever since antiquity all the way across Asia from ...

(Xi Jinping’s reaction was not recorded.) William Dalrymple does not deploy that Sanskrit phrase in “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.” But his audacious book’s aim ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...