Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient ...

Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

Shortly after the opening of the Silk Road, techniques for silkworm farming and thread dyeing spread from China's Central Plains to Xiyu (Western Regions), which encompasses today's Xinjiang Uygur ...

The Belt and Road Initiative is boosting investment in renewable energy and helping countries along the Belt and Road pursue high-quality and green development ... the ancient Silk Road, officials ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid 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 ...

But scientists have long wondered when and how feline friends arrived in China—where they’re currently ... that traveled east on the famous Silk Road, the lengthy trading network that ...

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.