On the Golden Eagle train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...
Levantine gold. Exotic animals ... And of course God: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam each coursed along the Silk Road. So did revolutionary innovations such as algebra. So did the bubonic ...
The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue Brunning ... I’d clear more; this is a once-in-a-lifetime show. Long a source of gold bullion throughout the Mediterranean, West Africa became ...
The outstanding diplomat Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty (206BC—220AD) traveled the road between 138BC to 139BC. He led a diplomatic mission and took gold and silk products to Loulan (now Ruoqiang ...
Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...
What the seizure shows is that while Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after being pardoned by President Trump a day after he came into office, others who sold narcotics on the dark ...