Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.
This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late ...
Using drone-based lidar, researchers mapped two medieval cities, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, in Uzbekistan, revealing detailed urban structures significant to the Silk Road's history. The first use of d ...
A pair of keen-eyed anglers noticed something abnormal sticking out of the seafloor off the coast of Sicily, Italy. When ...
Ancient stone goods found across France may have been made by skilled craftspeople in what is now Paris, who traded along ...
The transnational trade of modern ivory is banned in a bid to protect elephants, but the trade of ancient mammoth tusks is ...
Open to the public since Oct 12 and running until Nov 10, and taking the Silk Road as its theme, the exhibition, Endless ...
New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...
The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...
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