I love tulips! They are a real symbol of spring when they bloom in April and May and light up my garden with their stately presence and vivid colors. They are bright and cheerful with colors ...

When I learned about Silk & Snow's Wooden Bed frame, I was eager to test it. And test it I did. Made of sustainable wood with three headboard options (fabric, rattan, or solid wood), the bed frame ...

While CGI and green screens play a vital role in bringing the West End tale to life, most of the set was built from the ground up — including nine million tulips being planted to create the ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

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a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road. Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, the trade routes were long believed to have linked ...

Uzbekistan’s tradition of silk production has been a hallmark of its cultural and economic landscape for millennia, with deep roots tracing back to the ancient Silk Road. Today, Uzbekistan is ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...