In Iraq we see the rise of Isis after the U.S ... Johns Hopkins Professor Fred Starr has advocated a New Silk Road for decades. His concept is transcontinental in scope and runs from China ...

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 ...

Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route. The country is planning ...

The kingdom’s rulers maintained a vital maritime Silk Road staging post on the Musi River, which today runs through the city of a 1.8 million people before emptying out into the Java Sea.