Transport youngsters to ancient Japan without a Delorean on standby. Silk Road Story Time, a free fest, lets little ones craft Samurai helmets, listen to swashbuckling tales, and feast on snacks ...

The Silk Road as a concept dates back only to the 19th century, when the term was popularized by a German explorer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. ... Spurs split off into India, where many Chinese ...

The Christianity of the Silk Road was primarily the form known as Nestorianism, after the teachings of Nestorius, a 5th-century patriarch of Constantinople who soon outraged the Roman and Byzantine ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and ...

Starting around 200 BC and extending 4,000 miles, the Silk Road got its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade and tea trade in exchange for spices, ... And of course in the history of its name: ...

This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to 1000, tracing the flow of not only goods but also faiths, cultures and ...

At its most prosaic, the Silk Road was a series of trade routes that began thousands of years before the Common Era and lasted until (depending on who you ask) the 15th or 16th century (though ...

So the Silk Road, linking Constantinople, Baghdad and present-day Xian, split into a southern tier and northern tier at the desert, connecting a constellation of oasis towns like Kashgar and ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, ... Kyiv to Constantinople.