Travelling the Silk Road brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history ... home of prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and Baghdad, a fertile hub of commerce ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

And in fact, that long predates the major trade routes along those roads. The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to around 200 BC, meaning that for centuries before that, these same paths ...

01:20:00Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...

The Mongols, who ruled a vast empire, safeguarded a northern Silk Road land route that crossed the Eurasian steppes. Sea routes, important for trade and for communication, may also be considered part ...

Kuwait said about 73 percent of the work on its ambitious $3-billion Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Causeway project (also known as The Subbiya bridge), has been completed and the 36-km-long ...

Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route. The country is planning ...