For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...

a world of enormous movement of people and of goods, one of the busiest highways of all, then as now, ran from China: the Silk Road - not in fact one single road, but a network of routes that ...

The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in Uzbekistan. Restoration of its medieval architecture began decades ago under the ...

The grottoes are part of the Jiaohe Ruins -- among the largest and best-preserved ancient clay cities in the world and one of the sites along the ancient Silk Road added to the UNESCO World ...