On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...

This project will serve as an alternative route to the new Silk Road path that passes through Russia, Belarus, and Poland. With this investment, Beijing will gain additional shipping options to ...

And from day one we begin bumping into the Silk Road’s new silk: hydrocarbons. The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in ...

The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate this criticism. Laos’ public debt to economic ...

Nowruz is a rite dating back to the 6th century BCE, marking the ushering in of spring and the new year. Variously known as ...

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also referred to as the New Silk Road, is a massive infrastructure project launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping to boost China's economic and political ...

Golden Eagle Luxury Trains unveils epic 22-day journey with six nights onboard the new train and 12 nights on the famed ...

From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As for China’s domesticated cats, all of the new study’s house ... house cat ever found on the Silk Road. This led the researchers to believe ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

the network of Eurasian trade routes known as the Silk Road transported textiles, spices, and a myriad of other goods from Xi’an to Damascus. In the Pearl District, a new cocktail bar from Lulu ...