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 ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...

How 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 ...

And from day one we begin bumping into the Silk Road’s new silk: hydrocarbons. The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in ...

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 ...

Dreaming on the Green Field" 2025 Changzhou City Football Invitation Tournament prepares to kick off in Jiangsu Changzhou from March 20 to 25. This much-anticipated event not only highlights the ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

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 ...

From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...