The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.

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

The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction Friday of nearly 30,000 bitcoins seized from the now-shuttered online black market, Silk Road. Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital currency to ...

On the Golden Eagle train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

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

The symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai is staged in Hami city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. CHINA DAILY On Friday evening, the symphony Silk Road Across Hanhai (Endless Desert) will make its ...

Dubbed "the Oriental Swan Lake", the Chinese classic dance drama Silk Road will be staged at the Guangdong Friendship Theater ...