Scientists have confirmed that the pigment used is cinnabar, a valuable mineral historically linked to religious rituals, art ...
The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...
Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
The newly found cities were surprising to researchers because of their high elevation, which features harsher weather conditions. Previously, the Silk Road was believed to only pass through lowlands.
A team of archaeologists in Xinjiang, China, has unearthed an extraordinary piece of history—a set of human teeth intentionally painted ...
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...
According to local folklore, the city of Margilan was founded by Alexander the Great ... trading centre a few centuries later, after the Silk Road opened, providing a connection between Europe ...
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...
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 ...
The findings raise new questions about the urban development of Asia across the Silk Road and how the route might have driven ...
between 775 and 940 C.E. That cat is the oldest house cat ever found on the Silk Road. This led the researchers to believe that their Chinese samples have roots in the Middle East and arrived in ...