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. Ask students to help map ...

Archaeologists uncovered two ancient cities, shedding new light on the historical Silk Road trade hubs that thrived over 1,300 years ago ...

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 the city.

The medieval cities are among the largest ... of other high-altitude settlements along the Silk Road and beyond. "We could ...

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

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 ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 ... and ended on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in cities like ...