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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered two incredible 1,324-year-old forgotten cities abandoned on the ancient Silk Road. Founded in ...

NINGBO, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 29 October 2024 - The highly anticipated 9th Zhejiang Book Fair and the 2024 ...