The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered by drones sent searching for their secrets. For ...

A map produced by the remote sensing technique called LiDAR shows Tugunbulak, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan. The medieval settlement was located along Central Asia's Silk Road.

The term would later appear in the title of a 1938 book by Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin, The Silk Road: Ten Thousand Miles Through Central Asia, which maps the author’s 10,000-mile ...

The Silk Road was never really a road at all, but rather a “stretch of shifting, ... such exchanges played no small part in shaping the modern world. 19 color and 61 b&w illus., maps.

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

The Silk Road conjures images of caravans, desert steppes and adventurers like Marco Polo navigating the ancient trading routes connecting China with India, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. China’s ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to ...