The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

Fly above Xinjiang, a vast and diverse region in western China, where rugged mountains, vast deserts, and vibrant cities ...

On conventional maps, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent were assumed to avoid the mountains of Central Asia. But the new research shows the Silk Road network was larger than previously ...

The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. Photograph by John Stanmeyer, Nat Geo ...

Tombs unearthed in China's Xinjiang province along an ancient Silk Road trading route have revealed previously unknown secrets about burial customs in the country.

Archaeologists have mapped two lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan that were inexplicably abandoned hundreds of years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and ...

The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West, spanning from China to the Mediterranean. It played a crucial role in facilitating not only the exchange of ...

That was 25 years ago. Today, centuries after it provided a crucial-yet-harrowing thoroughfare for Silk Road traders, the Himalayan mountain pass of Zoji La connecting Kashmir to Ladakh is still ...

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 mapped these ...