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 ...
Culture, music, art and food of the Silk Road were set against a backdrop of pavilions representing Silk Road countries.
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Peláez said he wants to see more public art in the area. And when the city’s Fiesta celebrations overtake the city each spring, he hopes the district will host a Silk Road-themed event.