Conjuring up images of merchants on camel-led caravans, pilgrims braving bandits on the open road and bazaars ... the mere mention of the Silk Road to any medieval adventurer would have them ...

In any event, when America ill-advisedly dropped the New Silk Road ball, China happily picked it up and ran with it. China’s New Silk Road consists of a new economic belt of connective ...

CNAS has undertaken a major research project that will produce in-depth case studies of four diverse and geostrategically critical nations ...

Khalmuradov and I slog up a scalding pink dune ... The Uzbek government has bottled the Silk Road’s faded glories into an open-air museum. I park two cargo donkeys in a nearby village.

It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called 'the Arctic Silk Road ... Arctic ice to open new maritime pathways. Experts say it could cut up to two weeks off the ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two ... get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up "These would have been important urban ...

The cemetery lay on the main route of the Silk Road. The site was dated to 2,200 to 2,050 years ago via radiocarbon dating, putting it in the time frame when the Silk Road was active with the ...

TEHRAN – The 4th Silk Road International Youth Photography and Short Video Competition has opened a call for entries.

One way to understand the scope of the Belt and Road Initiative is to look at where most students at Chinese universities come from, namely Central Asia, Africa, and South America. For them, the Peopl ...