Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten backwater in the current of global news. Lightly populated, underdeveloped, and mostly authoritarian ...

United States President Donald Trump has decided to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark-web black market Silk Road, who was convicted in 2015. Before his pardon, he was serving a life ...

The two natural candidates are the region’s historical powers, China and India, which were the world’s largest economies from ...

The humpback whale raised out of the water just feet from the boat, rolling and spy hopping for its fans. Documentary ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of two medieval cities hidden in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, challenging long-held assumptions about ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... At the time of the burials, Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with the West ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov ...

Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 visitor slots per day. The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to make first public appearance since pardon at upcoming Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas.

"Wearing VR glasses, we learned the grottoes' history and saw digitally restored ... the world and one of the sites along the ancient Silk Road added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2014.