Pages from of one of the oldest Qurans in existence are among the historical treasures on show at the “The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases” exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Drive the Silk Road from Venice to Beijing in a caravan of Land Rovers (fitted with GPS, maps, GMRS Radio Walkie-Talkies.) This is their sixth year. Operated by AAST only ...

May 11, 2020. This year, T’s spring Travel issue is devoted to just five stories, each an account of its writer’s journey along a different section of the Silk Road — the ancient network of ...

The 15th century painting of an envoy from Samarkand, a lioness and a lion tamer illustrates the gifting of exotic animals to Chinese emperors as tribute. Court officials did all they could to ...

The painting comes from a Buddhist shrine in Khotan in Central Asia. This was just one of many oasis cities along the Silk Road. Silk and other goods were traded along this route from China to ...

The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

A 12-year-old runaway joins a caravan of traders who are making their way across the Taklamakan Desert in China, and becomes a servant to its loquacious leader, Samir.

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, would stop on ...