Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that they nearly bankrupted their empire to buy it. Some things never change. There is little truly “old” about the old Silk Road. Today Muslim ...

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabian, ancient Greek and Roman cultures and promoted the exchange of the Western and Oriental civilizations.

The Silk Road, a network of trade routes connecting ... Central Asia, and the Roman Empire. The Sogdian people originated from Sogdiana, a region that now includes parts of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ...

shows off this little-known society’s sophistication and its deep connections to the ancient Silk Road. Featuring a brass ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The resource-rich subcontinent supplied great wealth to those merchants who trekked over the Silk Road and sailed the Indian Ocean. Part 1: Roman Merchant As a Roman trader you have just one goal ...

From the country’s incredible monuments to its bustling bazaars and Silk Road, here are your not-to-miss experiences in Uzbekistan. With the debut of high-speed trains providing connectivity to ...

"It is an epitome of ancient Buddhist beliefs and the Jiaohe Ruins were even more significant since they were once an important city along the Silk Road," Fang noted. The Jiaohe Ruins are also the ...