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 ...

Scientists were surprised to find a medieval metropolis atop mountains, providing new insights into life along the ancient trade route. “This changes everything we thought we knew.” Lidar is ...

It took over two years, but divers in Sicily finally scoured a shipwreck off the island's south shore, and found lots of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Technology enables scientists to measure and discover things that would be impossible to find without it, like these lost ...

The medieval cities are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, the vast network of ancient trade routes that connected Europe and Eastern Asia. Images and ...

Recreating Gupta-era ship for first voyage by 2025, reviving ancient maritime heritage with support from Indian Navy and ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood. By Alexander Nazaryan Michael Frachetti was on an archaeological dig high in the ...

It is now clear that historians have been looking at entirely the wrong place when they thought about ancient trade routes. It was India, not China, that was the greatest trading partner of the ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern ...

The medieval cities are among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road, the vast network of ancient trade routes that connected Europe and Eastern Asia. The drone ...