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 ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

The road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, with the early origins of the route emerging during the Han Dynasty in 206 BC. This was ...

famous for marking the departure point of the Silk Road. At the top of the famous trade route, the ancient site boasts an impressive size of 75,790 square feet. At first glance, however ...