Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads. The travel of artistic motifs, styles, and techniques along the Silk Road is closely bound up with ...

The Silk Road is often depicted as an incredible crossroads of ideas, religion, and art. Does the Silk Road conform to our modern concept of a pluralist, multicultural society? Well, Silk Road towns ...

Culture, music, art and food of the Silk Road were set against a backdrop of pavilions representing Silk Road countries.

A Tang Dynasty tomb unearthed in northwest China has shed new light on the lives and heritage of the Sogdians, ancient traders who played a vital role in connecting cultures along the Silk Road. The ...

Chorsu Bazar was built in 1980 on a former crossroads, but it is a grand sight with a dome covered in blue and green tiles that shimmer in the sun. Food, silks and spices have been sold in this area ...

Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case ...

Inspired by Baudelaire's words, Fattal engraved the pearls with texts in a version of lingua franca – “a language that was a mixture of Italian, Arabic and Greek so those along the silk road c ...

"Louis Vuitton has a powerful history, an artisan devoted to their art, to the quality of their ... on a scarf for a project titled "The Silk Road." Since then, Andrée Putman, César Baldaccini ...