And today all around us, Beijing is pouring a trillion dollars into rebuilding a modern Silk Road trade network across Eurasia. How much would I give for a mouthful of water? How old is this Silk ...

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabian, ancient Greek and Roman cultures and promoted the exchange of the Western and Oriental civilizations.

At the request of Hussain's ailing grandfather, the family inspected an old property near Kargil's ... as one of India’s finest private Silk Road relics. Initially unsure how to handle the ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths ... which allowed researchers to map the buried structures without disturbing the fragile landscape. The findings, published in the ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

Smithsonian Archives; Alamy In the area around Tampa Bay, the remains of centuries-old ... map offered an intriguing study of a soon-to-be-altered landscape. Many of the shell middens became road ...