On the campaign trail, incoming US president Donald Trump vowed to release Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht from prison if ...

I just finished Aarathi Prasad's new book, Silk. The author, a molecular geneticist, and bioarcheologist raised in the Caribbean, wore silk saris all her youth. Her book explains silk's origins ...

In her book Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses ... This event accompanies the British Library exhibition A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang (27 September – 23 February 2025) Doors and Bar ...

Welcome to one of the most seminal works on Indian art, culture, history, trade, economics, people and their habitats going ...

Dated to between 3,148 and 2,966 years ago, the objects all show signs of having been burned, indicating that they were ...

"They, and that story (of Gandhara), are emblematic of the fascinating filaments that run through all the periods and places explored in this publication," Stewart says, speaking of the six-volume ...

Two thousand years ago when, under the Emperor Augustus, Rome was settling down to an era of peace and plenty, and her commercial and ruling classes were acquiring a new taste for luxury, the ...

In the English language world, however, it became a buzzword after EP Dutton came up with The Silk Road, an English ...

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How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

The Silk Road subsequently branched out into many different routes ... Travelling along any section of this ancient trade ...

“Silk was the driving force behind the opening of the Silk Road, positioning this material as a global commodity that greatly influenced the progress of human civilization,” write the researcher ...