Engraved in the folds of the sculpture are depictions of the key cities along the ancient Silk Road. Standing before it, taking in this moment as we film for CNN, I was captivated by how ...

In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected ...

A carved wood depiction of Buddha (above ... a sign perhaps that this city was at a remove from the bustling Silk Road economies that characterized Sogdian settlements in the Zeravshan Valley ...

A darker depiction of the slave trade is a Scandinavian ... juxtaposed with the iron neck collar of a slave. The Silk Road, or what’s left of it, ends up finally in Sutton Hoo, with a lovely ...

Alongside the airy depictions of nirvana were earthier details familiar to any Silk Road traveler: Central Asian merchants with long noses and floppy hats, wizened Indian monks in white robes ...

What was the Silk Road? The painting comes from a Buddhist ... spinning its cocoon When handling the wooden panel with the depiction of the Silk Princess, one is surprised about its weight.

This painting from the bottom of a bowl is one of the earliest depictions of a cat from China ... 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals.

Pamir, the Pearl of the Silk Road, Chinese painting, by Ye Hua from the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts.