The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

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

But scientists have long wondered when and how feline friends arrived in China—where they’re currently ... that traveled east on the famous Silk Road, the lengthy trading network that ...

Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

where it links up with the rail network in China. The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate ...

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.

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid the ...

The construction of a railway line from China to Kyrgyzstan and further to Uzbekistan has been ceremoniously initiated. This will provide an alternative route to the new Silk Road, which passes ...