A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

The Silk Road ... route connecting the ancient world, but also a synonym for economic and cultural exchanges between the Western world and the oriental world. The Silk Road was an international ...

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 ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... Migration routes might have influenced the genetic makeup of ancient ...

That route from the Persian Gulf to Inner Mongolia was just one of many making up the ancient network of the Silk Road - or, more accurately, Silk Roads - that for centuries connected the cities ...

Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient ... home to 22 of the Silk Road's 33 UNESCO heritage sites. There are another eight in Kazakhstan, and three in Kyrgyzstan. The route, which started ...