By the way, I forgot to tell you, I’m going on a trip to Uzbekistan in a few days.” That’s what my 78-year-old French mom, ...

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 ...

About halfway through his 7,000-mile voyage across Central Asia, travel writer Colin Thubron found himself in an ironic situation. Stranded in the town of Maimana, Afghanistan, he had decided to catch ...

The Silk Road conjures up images of distant lands, trails of camels, exotic spices and fabrics - and now you can travel the route by rail. A chartered special train, the Orient Silk Road Express, ...

The Silk Road, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, was once among the most important trade routes in the world. It remains an iconic "crossroad" for East-West relations, but the countries it ...

A cemetery dating back roughly 1,700 years has been discovered along part of the Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes that once connected China to the Roman Empire. The cemetery was found in ...

From my seat on the sidelines, drinking the second-tier wine, it all looked like the hard launch of a soft-power strategy. A proposal for how a small country might outmanoeuvre the hostile superpowers ...

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This historic site, officially named the Toru-Aygyr complex, lies just off the northwestern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, where the Russian Academy of Sciences team dove a surprisingly shallow 3 to 13 feet ...

Finding omens of American decline on a long walk across Asia. By Paul Salopek Mr. Salopek, a writer for National Geographic, is at work on a book about his journey around the world. YANGON, Myanmar — ...