But my interest in the region stretches back earlier—to a period spanning the eighth to 15th centuries. At that time Silk Road entrepôts in Uzbekistan such as Khiwa, Buxoro, and Samarqand ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

According to a study recently published on the preprint server bioRxiv, cats were one of the many assets that traveled east on the famous Silk Road ... across this time period [was] a highly ...

N ew research suggests that domestic cats first appeared in China around 600 CE, likely arriving via the Silk Road trade ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two ... is sitting on a highly prized commodity of the time, which is iron, and it's also dense in juniper forest ...

At the time, raw silk became the country's largest ... On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila Cliffe from the UK follows the Silk Road from northern Kanto, once a major production area ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

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China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route ... remains from China across this time period [was] a highly challenging ...