Each conference should have at least one brain-disabling paper. You know, the one during which you doze off to recharge your mental batteries, prepare your own paper which will be in the next panel, ...

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 the ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The alleged Silk Road mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, was arrested on Tuesday in San Francisco, and presented in San Francisco federal court Wednesday morning. A detention hearing will be held at 9 ...

The authors used satellite imagery and GIS (geographic information systems) mapping software to compare the locations of major Silk Road archaeological sites with the modelled annual movements of ...

There are many unanswered questions about the evolution of the ancient ‘Silk Roads’ across Asia. This is especially the case in their mountainous stretches, where harsh terrain is seen as an ...

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Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by ...

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This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dynamite comes from Ankara. Ten tons, and it takes two days. The truck climbs carefully, screwing 2,500 feet up the ...