The UNESCO Silk Roads programme is pleased to announce the publication of the 5th edition of the photo album Youth Lens on the Silk Roads: Best Photos from the International Silk Roads Photo Contest.

Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...

Scientists have debated how domestic cats reached East Asia for a long time. While it is well known that cats were first domesticated from wild species in the Middle East thousands of years ago, the ...