It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called 'the Arctic Silk Road' is getting a lot of attention. The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by Russia ...

Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

And in fact, that long predates the major trade routes along those roads. The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to around 200 BC, meaning that for centuries before that, these same paths ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward ... Now Hari Sreenivasan catches up… China’s plan to build veins of trade over land and sea into Europe and Asia may ...

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...

For millennia, Kazakhstan has stood at a vital junction along the ancient Silk Road, its strategic location forging a link ...

Travelling the Silk Road brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history ... home of prosperous merchants who thrived on the caravan trade; and Baghdad, a fertile hub of commerce ...

Kuwait said about 73 percent of the work on its ambitious $3-billion Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Causeway project (also known as The Subbiya bridge), has been completed and the 36-km-long ...

Iraq wants to open up ancient trade routes to create a new "Silk Road" of highways, railways and ports linking the Gulf to Europe to rival the Suez Canal as a trade route. The country is planning ...

01:20:00Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.

beautiful objects and a series of unique people and cultures combined to make this trip a rare opportunity to travel in the footsteps of the ancient makers of this famous Silk Road trade route.

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade route network. A group of ...