Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route. The country is planning ...

The history of relations between China and Mesopotamia dates back to ancient times, the land and sea routes of the Silk Road connected them, more than two thousand years ago. Sino-Iraq relations ...

The ship would have been sailing from somewhere in the Abbasid Empire, possibly Basra in present day Iraq, to China and sank on its return ... indicative of the scale of the trade of the Maritime Silk ...

President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Silk Road marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, a promise he made to the ...

Law enforcement said Ulbricht created the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace” on the internet.

Widely recognized as Iraq’s predominant classical music tradition, the Maqam encompasses a vast repertory of songs, accompanied by traditional instruments. Moreover, this popular genre provides a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... on the shards of a blue flask from ...

Marco Polo lived from 1254 to 1324 and traveled the Silk Road including stops in what are now Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. Photo credit: Michael Yamashita Yamashita ...