In T’s May 17 Travel Issue, four writers retrace the land routes of ancient explorers, looking at food, religion, art, poetry and silk-making. An earlier version of the map accompanying this ...

A map produced by the remote sensing ... technology, religion and art between different civilizations. Asia's Silk Road was active throughout the medieval period, with Tashbulak and Tugunbulak ...

Tung Chee-hwa (first right), vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and Shan Jixiang (center), director of the National Palace Museum, viewed the Silk Road Landscape Map at the donation ...

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically ... The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

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Call it "Calichina." In its never-ending quest to bring Europe just a little closer, the Chinese government is now promoting the idea of a Polar Silk Road over the top of Eurasia, passing Russia ...

Musicians from the China National Traditional Orchestra gave a Silk Road themed performance at the opening ceremony of the art exhibition titled Silk Road: Artists Rendezvous on Aug 15 at the ...