A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

China’s push to deploy critical digital infrastructure worldwide, from next-generation telecommunications networks to subsea ...

The War of the Heavenly Horses set the stage for an epic confrontation between the ancient Greeks of the Bactrian Kingdom and ...

China has launched the Silk Road Oriental Pop Up Book in the sacred city of Dunhuang, promoting its global cultural dialogue, ...

Marco Polo’s travels remain one of the most fascinating tales of exploration in history. This video provides a detailed, ...

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Wu Xin recently gave a lecture on “Imperial Foundations of the ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths ... of the vast empire ruled by the Karakhanids, a powerful Turkic dynasty that controlled much of Central Asia. Today, only 3% of the ...

Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers ... cats were present in China as early as the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.).” Which is not to say ...

They fostered relations between the Hellenistic world and the Qin and Han ... of the Silk Road. The study focused on two skeletons, labeled SUTE1 and SUTE2, excavated from the Tang dynasty tomb ...

Mingdi, born Liu Zhang, became emperor of the Later Han or Eastern Han Dynasty at the age of 30 ... were regular travellers on the ancient Silk Road until the end of the 11th century, after ...