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 ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

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 ...

Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 ...

The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, with the early origins of the route emerging during the Han Dynasty in 206 BC. This was ...

It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called 'the Arctic Silk Road' is getting a lot of attention. The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by Russia ...

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 ...