the earliest written recording of noodles had dated back to a Han Dynasty book from 2,000 years ago. Since then, traders have ...

Oil replaced many commodities once traded along the Silk Road, but low prices ... The Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni wrote more than a hundred books, among them a detailed anthropology of ...

Explore how astronomy was part of the cultural exchange that took place along the Silk Road, which connected regions ... night skies of the Central Asian steppes. Uzbekistan boasts several ...

Sea routes, important for trade and for communication, may also be considered part of the Silk Road. During the Han dynasty, Chinese ships traded with Southeast Asian kingdoms. During the 7th and 8th ...

In an expedition through the Central Asian steppe, a group of Kazakh and ... investigating the prehistoric origins of the legendary Silk Road. Far before its emergence in the 2nd century BC ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... mix of Steppe and northeastern Asian ancestry.