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 ...

This change made silk more accessible and less prohibitively expensive in the West by installing Constantinople (Byzantium) as a new source for silk, which removed the middlemen in the cost equation.

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 Silk Road’s Enduring Romance, and Eternal Influence Last May, when our known world was one way, we began planning these stories.

The Silk Road itself was actually a number of different trade routes that, combined, serve to move goods from China to the Arabian Peninsula and farther west. Few merchants actually travelled the ...

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, caravans, silks and spices in a web of ...

By bringing silkworm eggs to Constantinople, many of these high silk costs could be mitigated, bringing down the price of silk for Romans (though the fabric was still exclusively worn by the elite).

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 ...

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 ...

One Silk Road genius, Al-Khwarizmi—the word “algorithm” is a Latin garbling of his name—helped invent algebra. He calculated the length of the Mediterranean (correcting Ptolemy).

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, caravans, silks and spices in a web of ...

In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from the 6th to ...