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

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...

Travelling the Silk Road brings to life one of the greatest trading routes ... organized within UNESCO's programme 'Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Route of Dialogue' retraced the 2,000-year-old ...

Islambek Akhmaghambetov, a laid-off oil worker, has a snack at a truck stop diner in Kazakhstan’s oil-rich Mangghystau region. Oil replaced many commodities once traded along the Silk Road ...

The findings raise new questions about the urban development of Asia across the Silk Road and how the route might have driven innovation. "The high-resolution lidar images offer detailed views of ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese ... It is not only an important transportation route connecting the ancient world, but also a synonym for economic and cultural exchanges between ...

The Mongols, who ruled a vast empire, safeguarded a northern Silk Road land route that crossed the Eurasian steppes. Sea routes, important for trade and for communication, may also be considered part ...

The Silk Road was the first great globalization scheme. From 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., ideas, goods, cultures, and religions ...