The last few caravans trickled through in the 1980s, when mechanical transport had begun to take over as the more economical option. These days the road, paved over in China's rush to modernize ...

In the ancient period,China had no relations with Greece in the field of sport, although there was the Silk Road serving as a channel of trade and cultural exchanges between the East and West from ...

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.