Chinese President Xi Jinping and leaders of five Central Asian countries plant six pomegranate trees that represent close ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, are returning to China after a handover ceremony at the US ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Chinese silk weaving has a long history, dating back to the Neolithic period. The earliest known fragments of silk fabric dating back more than 4,700 years were unearthed at the Qianshanyang site in ...

NANJING — A growing number of visitors are flocking to the Suzhou Silk Museum, one of only two state-owned museums in ...

The War of the Heavenly Horses set the stage for an epic confrontation between the ancient Greeks of the Bactrian Kingdom and ...

Located on the western edge of Xinjiang province, it is one of the iconic towns of Silk Road lore, the gateway for Chinese traders heading for the markets of Central Asia and an essential stopover ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.