Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 ...

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

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia ... Now Hari Sreenivasan catches up… China’s plan to build veins of trade over land and sea into Europe and Asia may be the ...

Different cultures follow different practices, especially when death arrives. Some believe in mummification, while some ...

TEHRAN - Iran’s tourism minister has underscored the long-standing cultural and economic ties between the Islamic Republic ...

About 7,000 years later, these companion cats spread to Europe through trade. But scientists have long wondered when and how feline friends arrived in China ... the famous Silk Road, the lengthy ...

Scientists have confirmed that the pigment used is cinnabar, a valuable mineral historically linked to religious rituals, art, and medicine.

New research suggests that domestic cats first appeared in China around 600 CE, likely arriving via the Silk Road trade route ... to 5,400 years ago in an ancient farming village in Shaanxi ...

they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a genomic analysis of 22 ancient cat bones gathered from 14 sites across the country, representing China’s ...

[Photo/Xinhua] URUMQI -- Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest ... an in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, was once the main corridor for trade and cultural ...