This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that they nearly bankrupted their empire to buy it. Some things never change. There is little truly “old” about the old Silk Road. Today Muslim ...

The Silk Road, a network of trade routes connecting ... Central Asia, and the Roman Empire. The Sogdian people originated from Sogdiana, a region that now includes parts of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ...

Beyond the romanticised imagery lies a complex narrative, revealing the term’s true origins, historical misperceptions and its contemporary implications in a ...

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabian, ancient Greek and Roman cultures and promoted the exchange of the Western and Oriental civilizations.

India was the center of ancient trade, not China, historian William Dalrymple said, debunking popular historical claims at ...

and the Roman Empire. However, the reverse may be true: steamed dumplings may have been brought by Turkic and Mongol peoples ...

The resource-rich subcontinent supplied great wealth to those merchants who trekked over the Silk Road and sailed the Indian Ocean. Part 1: Roman Merchant As a Roman trader you have just one goal ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

Credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database. China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via ...

It has been a hub of communications between China's Central Plain and northwestern China and an important point on the Silk Road that linked ... Central Asia and the Roman Empire.