Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visits Pakistan. The visit aims to strengthen bilateral ties and increase trade volume to ...

These traders had to eat on the go, and the foods they brought with them were the ancient-world equivalent of instant ramen and camp chili: easy to transport, quick to cook in large batches over a ...

There's a common misunderstanding that the Silk Road was merely an exchange between the West and East, but "Silk Roads" aims to spotlight the geographical reach of this ancient trade route and its ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...

Beijing says its trade and investment in Latin America is a win-win for both sides. Some 150 countries have signed on to the Belt and Road with China, including 22 in Latin America.

The main 21st-century rail-and-oil trade route passes through central Azerbaijan’s second city, Ganja, whose silk road credentials are less publicized. However, this too was also an historically ...

Chinese silk wasn't a dominant commodity in this trade, it was pepper, spices, ivory, cotton, gems, teak and sandalwood that were the focus. To some extent this is semantics (and Dalrymple has a ...

As far back as 206 BCE, China traded along the Silk Road, a network of Asian trade routes that lasted into the 15th Century. Trade items featured silk, porcelain, and ...

Dr. Susan Whitfield, curator of the British Library’s new exhibition, “The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith,” is aware of the beguiling quality of her subject and seeks to ground it.

TO COINCIDE with the 36th annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which opens Wednesday on the Mall and whose focus this year is the ancient Silk Road trade route , a number of thematically related ...