Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

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 ...

Trade over land and sea that began two thousand years ago led to the formation of The Silk Road. Join anthropologist Ian McIntosh as he takes viewers on a fascinating visit to some of the key ...