On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Meaning “golden hill,” Tillya Tepe is located in ... At the time of the burials, Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with the West, a region crisscrossed by traders carrying goods ...

At that time Silk Road entrepôts in Uzbekistan such as Khiwa, Buxoro, and Samarqand rivaled or even outstripped Europe in intellectual achievement. This was the Arab Golden Age of science ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being transformed by China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. (Photo: Golden Bridge on Silk Road by artist Shuyong - a ...

The Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of Nigeria in China, Ambassador Babagana Wakil met a delegation from the Silk Road Golden Bridge International Cooperation Center led by Yao Sai in Beijing on ...