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.

US President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug market ...

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.

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 ...

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.