Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

Yet even this experienced scholar was unprepared for the dazzling array of riches he unearthed, which came to be known as the Bactrian gold ... Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China ...

Silk Road, one of the most popular deep web marketplaces for drugs and murder-for-hire, was conclusively shut down by the FBI in 2013. The operation led to the arrest of site owners; millions of ...

coins and a bronze mirror from the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220), at the renowned Mengchaktepa site in Uzbekistan. These artifacts confirm the site's pivotal role as a hub along the ancient Silk Road ...

The Silk Road was not just a cultural bridge but also an economic lifeline for Kashmir. Traders from India found Central Asia to be a lucrative market for their goods, sending back gold coins and ...

Silk Roads is about lots more than silk. John Masefield summed up the allure of trade with the east in his poem Cargoes: ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... A bolt of silk and ceramic statues of ...