Central Asia was a conduit for Chinese silk to the West and a major producer ... among other products. The famed Damascus steel originates from the unique manufacturing process first recorded ...

A native speaker of Arabic and Chinese, she has been working towards Arabic-Chinese comparative literary and cultural studies, including Silk Road Studies ... but to and fro China, Damascus and Venice ...

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 ...

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his ...

Outstanding issues between Damascus, the armed Druze groups, and the SDF can likely be resolved through protracted ...

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians became the most successful merchants of the era. They fostered relations ...

Syrian security forces continued to pour into the country's coastal regions amid ongoing communal violence against the nation ...

[PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY] As The Voyage of the Silk Road crescendoed to its peak, those familiar with Chinese regional culture might have found themselves haunted by the image of the rugged ...

Damascenes are experiencing the first Holy Month of Ramadan without the al-Assad family in more than five decades. Bashar al-Assad, who took over from his father Hafez, was the last of the family ...

By Alissa J. Rubin Reporting from the Faysh Khabur border crossing between Iraq and Syria In the Syrian capital, Damascus, the country’s new leader has hosted a national unity conference and ...