This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Digital Silk Road, China’s ambitious initiative to shape critical digital ...

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

Wendy Wu’s new “super luxury” Legends of the Silk Road tour leaves on September 15, 2025, and includes three nights on the ...

This project will serve as an alternative route to the new Silk Road path that ... shorten the journey from China to Europe by about 560 miles. Consequently, the travel time will be reduced ...

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

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 ...

Even now its vast gantlet of blistering light and thorn scrub presents a formidable barrier to travel ... camelback along the Silk Road’s sprawling distribution system. Chinese gunpowder.

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

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

between 775 and 940 C.E. That cat is the oldest house cat ever found on the Silk Road. This led the researchers to believe that their Chinese samples have roots in the Middle East and arrived in ...