A new genetic study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science revealed evidence of genetic admixture between ancient Central and East Asians, offering fresh insights into the lives of ...

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

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

The Silk Road wasn’t a camel rut worn in the steppe ... and sophisticated crossroads between East and West, a magnet for merchants and intellectuals who came here to exchange goods and ideas.

The resource-rich subcontinent supplied great wealth to those merchants who trekked over the Silk Road and sailed the Indian Ocean. Part 1: Roman Merchant As a Roman trader you have just one goal ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, ...

Come September, the fashion crowd will be heading to the inaugural Bukhara Biennial, which will feature works by the likes of ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

the merchants of Venice. The Venetian writer, trader, and explorer Marco Polo travelled the Silk Road more than seven hundred years ago. Like Marco Polo, Dr Sam Willis wrote about his travels.