"We could really change the map of urban development ... The Silk Road is credited with bringing advanced technologies like gunpowder, paper, and silk from China to the Middle East and Europe.

where it links up with the rail network in China. The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate ...

However, it was mined and traded along the Silk Road in antiquity, the researchers noted. China and Europe, the beginning and end of the Silk Road, were the two most significant cinnabar-producing ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

A map of the Silk Road. Encyclopædia Britannica Merriam-Webster ... The popular origin of dumplings in ancient China begins ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned ... Now Hari Sreenivasan catches up… China’s plan to build veins of trade over land and sea into Europe and Asia may be the most ...

CNAS has undertaken a major research project that will produce in-depth case studies of four diverse and geostrategically critical nations ...

On Tuesday, an exhibit that includes more than 240 artifacts from the Silk Road launched at the National Art Museum of China (NAMC) in Beijing.

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

The exhibition, "Ink Splendor and Cultural Context: Gansu Silk Road Art Treasures Exhibition," brings together painted pottery, bamboo slips, silk manuscripts, inscribed bricks, sculptures, and mural ...

But scientists have long wondered when and how feline friends arrived in China—where they’re currently ... that traveled east on the famous Silk Road, the lengthy trading network that ...