The Great Silk Route, or Silk Road, was the fabled overland supply chain that famously allowed the supply of Chinese goods to reach ancient Rome from the second century BCE.

Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk Road created the first Asian food diaspora appeared first on JoySauce.

Trade has fueled the rise of civilizations for millennia,connecting cultures, boosting economies, and spreading ideas across continents. Explore the fascinating history of trade routes, mapping the ...

Along the old rocky road, we pass hundreds of excavators, cement mixers and steam rollers in the process of constructing a giant new road. The scale of the operation is enormous.

The Silk Road was the main overland trade route for the transfer of goods from China, through India, Egypt, and the Middle East to Europe.

Cotton and silk fabric imported from the Far East dating back to the early Islamic period some 1,300 years ago was recently found by a team of Israeli and German researchers in Israel’s Arava region, ...

Once an important Silk Road trading hub, the Afghan city of Herat has long been a cultural centre, but decades of war have ravaged its ancient traditional crafts.

Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

Coddled kitty (Nature) A house cat dead for more than 1,000 years is changing our understanding of urbanization and trade along the early Silk Road. Archaeologists found the cat’s skeleton in Dzankent ...