The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in Uzbekistan. Restoration of its medieval architecture began decades ago under the ...

With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students ... of the photos that users ...

In his writings, Polo noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the route that once carried trade between China and the Mediterranean world. On January 14, 1896, a caravan left from ...

When it comes to international trade everyone knows how important passages like the Suez Canal are for the world’s economy ... route called ‘the Arctic Silk Road’ is getting a lot of ...

The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...