Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation ... and civilizing influences have flourished along the Silk Road. These include the development of philosophy and science; law and history; ...

Chinese gunpowder. Venetian glass ... Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten backwater in the current of global news.

Archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Shang city in Southern China, making it the oldest ever found in the region of Lingnan, famous for marking the departure point of the Silk Road. At the top of ...

President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Silk Road marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, a promise he made to the ...

A 2021 survey of Greenland had 69.1 percent of those asked think that Greenland should cooperate more closely with the U.S.

Liubao tea gained widespread popularity in China during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the late Qing period, Chinese laborers traveling to Southeast Asia introduced this refreshing, stomach-soothing ...

The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by Russia and China, and it is has been hailed as "the future of international trade." The ambitious plan aims to create a faster and more ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...