That Buddha embodies the show’s ambition to expand the desert-caravan “Silk Road” — so named by the 19th-century German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen — to a web of trade routes ...

Forget the Silk Roads, it’s the Golden Road we should be celebrating. Renowned historian William Dalrymple argues that, ...

When did the term arise and what geographic regions did it describe? Was the Silk Road ever a coherent path? The term was coined by a German explorer, Ferdinand von Richtofen, during the late 19th ...

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The museum aims to “challenge and expand” traditional understandings of the Silk Road: “Rather than a single trade route, the Silk Roads were ...

The Silk Road, like the Milky Way, is not, alas, an entirely literal entity. It’s a branding exercise, a way of making coherent a whole network of ancient trade routes that stretched east and ...

The original Silk Road, a term coined by the German cartographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in the 19th century, was a relatively straightforward affair, reaching from the Chinese Han capital ...

Although they aren’t credited with having developed the first airplane, Magnus, Wilhelm, and Ferdinand von Wright were accomplished in their own right, each known as a great painter of portraits, ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading route that spanned from Asia toward the West, is where we find journalist Paul Salopek these days. Salopek began his "Out of Eden" walk four years ago in Ethiopia.

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

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