The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

Fly above Xinjiang, a vast and diverse region in western China, where rugged mountains, vast deserts, and vibrant cities merge into an extraordinary landscape. This drone footage captures the ...

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 ...

The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan.

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.

Groundbreaking research in the mountains of Uzbekistan could shift our understanding of the Silk Road, a vast network of trade routes that spanned from China to the Mediterranean.

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and ...

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia.

The Silk Road wasn’t a traditional road. Instead, it was a general network of trade routes that stretched between Europe and the Middle East to East Asia.

Tugunbulak and Tashbulak, in the mountains of Uzbekistan, were bustling medieval centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone ...

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.