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

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Local leaders are celebrating the commemoration of the Silk Road cultural heritage district and its impact across the ...

a key stopping point on the old Silk Road. The city was the site of a government massacre in 2005, when military forces fired into a crowd of people protesting the country’s economic and ...

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering ...

Apart from Buddhist art work, these grottoes also reflect the production and living condition of ancient people. On the ancient Silk Road, one of the fascinating places is the ancient castle in ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road.

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.