The exhibition is placed throughout the Granary Square area of King’s Cross in London. Here the viewer is encouraged to take a journey across desert, mountain, and sea. Each of these aspects, together ...

Uzbek law had to be changed to allow the country’s most prized artefacts to travel to the UK: detail from the south wall of the ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’ in ...

Examine the textiles that gave the Silk Road its name, and travel across the trade routes that connected the cultures of Afro-Eurasia for centuries as The Ohio State University at Marion hosts a ...

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. The creation of the Silk Road -- The road of faiths -- The road to a Christian East -- The road to revolution -- The road to concord -- The road of furs -- ...

A house cat dead for more than 1,000 years is changing our understanding of urbanization and trade along the early Silk Road. Archaeologists found the cat’s skeleton in Dzankent, a medieval city east ...

The Silk Road was never really a road at all, but rather a “stretch of shifting, unmarked paths across massive expanses of deserts and mountains” that carried a slow trickle of trade between the Near ...

Traveling the Silk Road across Gansu is a journey through layers of history, culture, and landscape that few places can match. From Lanzhou’s bustling riverfront and steaming bowls of hand-pulled ...

Known whimsically as shui xiang, or “the land of water”, China’s glittering province of Jiangsu has all the geographical advantages to give it a starring role in the epic tale of China’s ancient ...

The first rumblings of spring have reached the Central Atlantic. The green tips of daffodils and jonquils are pushing through the still firm soil, and in some sunny spots, snowdrops and crocus are ...