After more than 850 days, traversing 14 countries across Eurasia, and covering 22,000 kilometers, some have called this ...

Equally important is the mythic legacy. We invoke the Silk Road when we talk of Marco Polo and Kubla Khan, of East and West, of modern-day China. In a globalised, interconnected world, it has the ...

The clue’s in the show’s title: via a network of trading routes that scholars used to call the “Silk Road”. If that phrase evokes exotic images of Marco Polo and two-humped camels laden ...

Camels! Deserts! Caravans! Marco Polo! In fact, as with much of history, ‘the silk road’ was somewhat made up in retrospect to describe a less tangible phenomenon. The British Museum’s new ...

Easy-to-transport foods, like noodles and dumplings, were necessities along the trade route The post Stir Fried: How the Silk ...

Two landmark exhibitions reveal how Europe’s big institutions are rethinking their collections for the 21st century ...

William Dalrymple on ancient India's empire of ideas, and why his latest book 'The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World' could not have been written a decade ago.

His reign was pivotal in shaping the political map of East ... trade along the Silk Road, fostering an era of relative peace ...

On Sept 18, the Silk Road Danqing – Exhibition of Murals along the Ancient Silk Road opened at the China Cultural Center in ...

A newly discovered manuscript of Il Milione, Marco Polo's famous account of his travels, has been found in the Biblioteca ...