Old Remains of 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' Reveal Rare Belief That Souls Resided in Teeth The Silk Road, a huge network ...

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...

While tracing the ancient Silk Road through Central Asia on foot, National Geographic writer Paul Salopek was regaled with tales of these jinn. One night, under clear skies in the sprawling ...

It took in land and water routes. It is not only an important ... with historical significance. The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabian, ancient ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

The findings raise new questions about the urban development of Asia across the Silk Road and how the route might have driven innovation. "The high-resolution lidar images offer detailed views of ...

In samurai days, the route was used to take tributes to the Shogun in Tokyo, then called Edo. The Mikuni Road also played a key role in the silk industry, carrying cocoons and raw silk.

Join us as we retrace the route that inspired the Lonely Planet guidebooks. The days of Silk Road traders journeying ... followed independently in battered old cars and vans, headed for places ...

The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk ... old exchange of culture and religion between East and West. Though it hasn’t been used as an official route for centuries ...