In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, a toxic red substance. Cinnabar is a ...
The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...
LANZHOU, 2 May (BelTA - Xinhua) - Two major archaeological sites along the ancient Silk Road opened to the public in northwest China on Thursday, the first day of the May Day holiday, offering new ...
Archaeologists in Aravah excavated ancient “trash mounds” and found discarded silk, cotton and other fabrics, remnants of silk road trade. Photo from the Israel Antiquities Authority Filled with food ...
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 ...
Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...
UNESCO is calling on young people around the world, aged 14 to 25 years old, to pick up their cameras and send their best photos to the 5th edition of our Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads contest. The ...
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