Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians became the most successful merchants of the era.

What was traded on the silk road? Trace how an ancient appetite for silk connected the cultures and civilizations of East and West.

Treasures Along the Silk Roads Overview: Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will ...

Silk Merchants Kept Cats in Their Shops Credit: Wikimedia Commons Silk was one of the most valuable goods on the Silk Road, but it had one natural enemy—moths.

The Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the great modern civilizations. Very few people traversed the entire Silk Road. Mostly it was made up of agents and merchants who bought ...

As silk fabrics became all the rage in imperial Rome, explorers and merchants opened up land and sea routes, fostering not only commerce but a robust exchange of wisdom and beliefs.

An East Iranian people who lived in what is now Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the Sogdians were, for a time, the leading merchants of the Silk Road.

The establishment of the Silk Road had lured a multitude of merchants, pedlars, travellers and students to ply on this route.