The development of the water ways of the Silk Roads across the Caspian Sea depended on the flood cycle of Amu Darya River. There are some hypotheses in Uzbek and Russian researchers’ studies.

The Tangut Collection of the IOM RAS originated from the dead city called Khara-Khoto by the Mongols, Heishuicheng by the Chinese and Ejina by the Tanguts themselves. The ruins of Khara-Khoto are ...

The World Inequality Report 2022 is an up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. The report is based on WID.world – the most extensive database on the historical evolution of income and ...

The government of Ontario, Canada launched a basic income pilot in 2017. Though it was cancelled prior to official analysis in 2019, researchers were able to gather data and make findings about the ...

Ghengis Khan and his Mongol armies rose to power at the end of the twelfth century, at a moment when few opposing rulers could put up much resistance to them. The vast Mongol empire he created ...

UNESCO is pleased to announce the winners of the 7th edition of the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest. UNESCO calls on young people around the world, aged 14 to 25 years old, to ...

Based on on-ground data, this piece by Eduardo C. Tadem is about grassroot and organically-emerging efforts to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic at community level. This is a granular view of the ...

The UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960) and other international human rights treaties prohibit any exclusion from, or limitation to, educational opportunities on the basis of ...

Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS) ...

The frankincense trees of Wadi Dawkah and the remains of the caravan oasis of Shisr/Wubar and the affiliated ports of Khor Rori and Al-Baleed vividly illustrate the trade in frankincense that ...

This article explores the spread of plague, known as ‘the Black Death’, across the Silk Roads of the 14 th Century CE. It examines ways in which people responded to the disease and looks at how we can ...

Data governance lies at the core of global problems and can alleviate or exacerbate inequalities. Data solidarity can help to distribute the risks and benefits of digital practices more equitably by ...