Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten backwater in the current of global news. Lightly populated, underdeveloped, and mostly authoritarian ...

Multiple ancient cultures converge at this city on the Silk Road in Central Asia, where historical attractions predate the ...

Fa Xian's "Note on Buddhist Country" and Xuan Zang's "Notes about Tang's Xiyu" are important works of research in the history of ancient Xiyu, India and the Silk Road. From 1222 to 1223 ...

Once a major world religion, Manichaeism spread across the Silk Road, blending elements of Christianity, Buddhism, and ...

The two natural candidates are the region’s historical powers, China and India, which were the world’s largest economies from ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov ...

How well you know a historic road less famous than the Silk Road, or a piece of literature important but lesser-known — check ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital currency ... Jeffrey Brown visits the relics that have survived the tumult of recent history in Afghanistan.