After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...
Until recently, my vague idea of the Silk Road, the trade link from ancient east Asia to the West, was of camels crossing ...
Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...
As an archaeologist enamored with mountain history, I needed to learn more, so two years later, I found myself on the Zoji La in the footsteps of Silk Road traders who, like us, hoped to make it ...
I VIVIDLY remember my maiden trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2004. Arriving as a Member of our Parliament’s Lower House and coming from the tropical heat of Malaysia, I was utterly shocked to find ...
The land beneath their feet was the same earth they’d known for decades—unchanging, steady, eternal. The air brushed past ...
But the Silk Road, one of the first and most notorious dark web markets, soon spiralled into a criminal empire worth millions ...
Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road darknet marketplace, remains a controversial figure in cryptocurrency history.
Poly MGM Museum celebrates seafaring heritage with an inaugural exhibition that brings together various rare artefacts, ...
These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...