The nation's legacy as a melting pot for ideas, creativity, and craftsmanship is being revived with a series of ambitious ...

In a small courtyard dappled with light under a grape arbor, 65-year-old Nurdun Esmayil was making handmade folk musical ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

A reproduction of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) Music and Dance Performance from Yulin Cave 25 reflects the cultural integration and esthetic tendencies of the era, while providing a glimpse into the ...

Kuqa, located in the center of Xinjiang, was a vital branch of the Northern Silk Road and a prosperous center of trade and ...

Both exhibitions promote the idea of the Silk Road as an east-west network of superhighways linking ... comprehensive mass transfer of Indian soft power, in religion, art, music, dance, textiles, ...

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 ...

During 6th China-France Cultural Forum, Cai Zhansheng, mayor of Quanzhou City, east China's Fujian Province, promoted the ...

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, would stop on ...

Word was, anime fans kept having to travel out of town to meet up with other fans and nerd out over one of their favorite ...

“It’s a really different environment up there,” Frachetti said of the newly discovered Silk Road settlements. “It’s winter there already. It’s freezing cold. We get snow in summer.

Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Now, archaeologists for the first time have ...