A city larger than many in Europe at the time was perched in the mountains.

A new LiDAR survey of previously discovered Silk Road sites reveals a more sprawling urban history than first imagined. An ...

The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, ...

The expansive exhibition, on view through February 23, looks at how commerce, ideas, and religion crisscrossed the world.

Kuqa, located in the center of Xinjiang, was a vital branch of the Northern Silk Road and a prosperous center of trade and ...

InNingbo, visitors can explore the Dunhuang Flying Apsara moving sand art picture that uniquely combines the functions of a ...

From the childhood memories of young women to Kamala Harris's center-stage presidential run, the silk press has been there ...

Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...

Researchers have found more proof of our forgotten history with the rediscovery of buried settlements in Central America and Central Asia dating back to antiquity. Using a laser-based mapping ...

The cities were found in a mountainous region – it’s unusual for settlements of this time to be at such high altitudes ...

Hou Yanghong, a 37-year-old inheritor of the intangible heritage of Dunhuang stone powder painting, was originally from north ...

Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Now, archaeologists for the first time have ...