Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

Discover Jiangsu: ancient gateway to the Maritime Silk Road Discover Jiangsu ... a branch of the Silk Road How were China's legions of terra-cotta warriors made? Experts have pieced it together.

In a small courtyard dappled with light under a grape arbor, 65-year-old Nurdun Esmayil was making handmade folk musical ...

Linking the two economic powerhouses were the Silk Road and its watery ... five kilns widely dispersed over China) suggest that these were export items made to order. Decorations show the ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

At the archaeological site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China, a trove of items was found in a series of sacrificial pits that ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...

The series will later be translated into multiple languages and made available in ... journey through various Silk Road posts ...

ISTANBUL, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Black Sea provinces of Türkiye highlight their key role in the ancient Silk Road, and experts believe ... route to the Black Sea for those coming from China, making ...

The ancient silk industry itself is bound up with legends about Chinese tea-sipping empresses ... including a platter made in what is now Istanbul. Co-curator of Silk roads, Sue Brunning, says ...

"The Buddhist art of Gandhara has amazed and puzzled modern observers since its rediscovery in the 19th century, for the ...