Editor’s Note: Sumnima Udas is CNN’s presenter of ‘The Silk Road: Past, Present, Future’, an epic journey from east to west along the ancient trade route, exploring how traditional culture, arts, and ...

New detection technologies have helped a team of American and Uzbekistani researchers map a pair of cities that were once part of the ancient Silk Road trade route across Asia. Aerial light detection ...

Sunken ships along the South China Sea revealed the rich trade networks of global trade between Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

The exhibition is placed throughout the Granary Square area of King’s Cross in London. Here the viewer is encouraged to take a journey across desert, mountain, and sea. Each of these aspects, together ...

Despite some Western political forces continuing to run smear campaigns against Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, they won't deter the people in the region from embracing peace and ...

The Silk Road was more than just a fable and it was traveled by real people, not just mythical figures such as Marco Polo. Dr. Robert Spengler's new book examines this trade route and its history, and ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, researchers using new remote sensing technology have discovered a series of cities including a major medieval metropolis “hidden in plain site” above the ancient Silk ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Once an important Silk Road trading hub, the Afghan city of Herat has long been a cultural centre, but decades of war have ravaged its ancient ...

Gansu, located along the ancient Silk Road, was a vital corridor linking China's ancient capital Chang'an -- the starting ...

(CNN) — Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change, researchers have found. Dating back to the 4th ...