The brief history of the Karakuduk oil patch describes ... Instead the city evokes the slow decline of the fabulous Silk Road world, when European shipping broke the monopolies of Central Asian ...

Multiple ancient cultures converge at this city on the Silk Road in Central Asia, where historical attractions predate the ...

The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

In the world we've been looking at this week ... as the travel-writer and novelist Colin Thubron knows well: "The place of the Silk Road in history - it's almost impossible to exaggerate its ...

Two major archaeological sites along the ancient Silk Road opened to the public in northwest China on Thursday, the first day ...

ASTANA — Once a thriving capital and strategic stronghold in Central Asia, the ancient city of Syganak in southern Kazakhstan ...

Tourists view murals in the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 5, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua) ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov ...

The Silk Road ... in the world today. The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction Friday of nearly 30,000 bitcoins seized from the now-shuttered online black market, Silk Road.