Oil replaced many commodities once traded along the Silk Road ... where kingdoms of middlemen grew rich, the Silk Road’s goods flowed radially in all directions. North to the Russian principalities.

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

The Silk Road, a network of trade routes connecting China with Europe ... The Sogdians became successful in brokering goods with people from different countries, acting as intermediaries in ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

Sea routes, important for trade and for communication, may also be considered part of the Silk Road. During the Han dynasty ... the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan brought continental goods to ...

The ability to trade goods facilitated long-distance political ... merchandise that changed hands every day. The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE.

The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...