The Iron Silk Road will launch a new chapter in the history of the Caucasus. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the newly independent republics of the southern Caucasus—Georgia ...
On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years AgoThe modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
Live Science on MSN5d
Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study findsHow and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...
History has handed Malaysia and Kazakhstan a second chance to walk the Silk Road—not as mere travelers, but as architects of ...
Khaleej Times on MSN10d
Transcontinental ‘silk road’ project gains tractionThe $20 billion India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC), also known as the 'New Silk Road,' is back on track after ...
The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate this criticism. Laos’ public debt to economic ...
Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...
It is a pity that China did not keep the name –Silk Road – something ... “The 'Belt and Road' cooperation is entering into a new stage,” the Chinese ambassador to the EU Zhang Ming ...
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...
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