and ended on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in cities like Antioch and Tyre.By the 4th century B.C.E. when Alexander the Great crossed the Indus River into Central Asia, Chinese silk had ...

Call it "Calichina." In its never-ending quest to bring Europe just a little closer, the Chinese government is now promoting the idea of a Polar Silk Road over the top of Eurasia, passing Russia ...

Even sections of the Great Wall are incorporated in this special passage. The award of UNESCO World Heritage status means that even today the Silk Road connects China to the rest of the world ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval ... Louis, who led a team that used drone-based lidar to map two mountainous cities at the western end of Tien Shan in the ...

“We could really change the map of urban development in medieval Asia,” he says in the statement. “The Silk Road wasn’t just ...