PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road ... glass cases hold tantalizing glimpses of the wealth of ancient Palmyra. They include delicate Roman ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The move means that roughly 1,000 staff members will either have to move to work for a new owner or take voluntary redundancy ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

Even though they're related, when he's having a portrait done "it's very surreal looking at him and then realising you're ...

Initially Hiebert thought the nomads had acquired the artifacts by "cherry-picking the Silk Road," he says ... of California at Berkeley, the Roman glass and bronze, Chinese lacquer and hundreds ...

Moe Suzuki Japan, Hirano explained, had a “dominant culture of wood,” which was different from the Greco-Roman relationship ... where Koyasan is, the road began to climb higher still, and ...

The Post Office has revealed plans to hand over its remaining directly-owned branches to franchisees by the autumn. It confirmed that it is offloading 108 crown branches which are currently ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov centre to a mountain village famous for its seasonal samsa. Uzbekistan ...

[Photo/Xinhua] URUMQI -- Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

"It is an epitome of ancient Buddhist beliefs and the Jiaohe Ruins were even more significant since they were once an important city along the Silk Road," Fang noted. The Jiaohe Ruins are also the ...