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The Silk Road conjures up images of distant lands, trails of camels, exotic spices and fabrics - and now you can travel the route by rail. A chartered special train, the Orient Silk Road Express, ...

Researchers have found more proof of our forgotten history with the rediscovery of buried settlements in Central America and Central Asia dating back to antiquity. Using a laser-based mapping ...

There was strange trouble at Glen Park Library on the first of October, an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, in what's otherwise one of the quietest buildings in San Francisco. Around 3 p.m., a ...

Dunhuang can help awaken the common memory of countries along the 'Belt and Road' The Dunhuang murals, colorful sculptures in a 3D virtual environment and the use of digital technology has helped ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in the depths of the South China Sea - a pair of 500-year-old shipwrecks brimming with valuable insights into the Silk Road trade, reported by China's ...

Up a dry mountain pass an hour’s drive east of Tashkent, we finally saw it, hovering like a silver spaceship on the horizon. The Uzbekistan Solar Furnace turns its back on Parkent Valley, a series of ...

SAMARKAND (Reuters) - I had a smile on my face as I strode across the tarmac of Samarkand airport, for I had arrived at last in the city I had toiled for four years to recreate as a novelist. My ...

A large-scale bust by the FBI and the UK's National Crime Association has resulted in the arrest of 17 individuals in several countries, and the shut down of more than 25 other .onion (Tor) websites - ...

As Americans and the world grapple with how last week’s election will reshape the next four years and beyond, few have as much personally at stake from a new presidential administration as one 40-year ...