Steve Nimis in the Department of Classics. The "Silk Road" refers to a series of routes that crisscrossed Eurasia from the first millennium B.C.E. through the middle of the second millennium C.E. The ...
Scholars studying the Silk Road have traditionally seen mountain ranges as obstacles standing in the way of merchants who plied the trade routes that connected China and western Eurasia.
The Silk Road wasn’t a traditional road ... ultimately became integral to “a network that stretched all across Eurasia,” she ...
The Tajiks consider themselves the main heirs of the trade routes of centuries ago, of the ‘first Eurasian globalisation’ in ...
Although pushed out of Syria, Iran, as a revisionist state, will continue to challenge U.S. strategy in West Asia. Meanwhile, the Abraham Accords between Israel and moderate Sunni Arab states, while a ...
Experts reveal that merchants brought domestic cats to China via the Silk Road, supported by new DNA research on ancient cat ...
Xinjiang, located in western China, was an important geographical region between the east and west of Eurasia and witnessed ... sites along the ancient Silk Road and explore new systems and ...
China-Europe freight rail services experienced significant growth last year. In 2024, trains made 19,000 trips, representing ...