The renowned Silk Road was a network of trade routes that spanned the Asian, North African, and European continents between ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade ... along the Silk Road and ...

Important periods for the Silk Road were the Chinese Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-C.E. 220), the Chinese Tang dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols, who ...

The truly decisive blow to the trade arrived around A.D. 1450, when the taxes and tolls of the burgeoning Ottoman Empire deterred almost all of the remaining trade along the traditional Silk Road ...

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just about the endpoints of China and the West,” he adds.

The Silk Road was never really a road at all ... carried a slow trickle of trade between the Near East and the Chinese empire over millennia. The arid conditions along the trail have helped ...

Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists have completed the first phase of a joint project to excavate the remains of an ancient empire on the Silk Road. The dig in Surxondaryo, a region in southern Uzbek ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far ... dating back to a medieval empire. He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site, as well as ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...