Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 ...

The howling of wind and pounding of hooves, the battle cries and clinking of cold glistening sword, the solemn chanting of ...

The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

(Photo by Liu Jian/Xinhua) Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

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.

(250406) -- URUMQI, April 6, 2025 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows a view of the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous ...

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

Archaeologists have identified what caused unusual red dye marks on the remains of a young woman who lived 2,200 years ago in ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise manuscripts, printed texts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the Mogao caves ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...

we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost civilisations. Samarkand’s Silk Road past is ...