Popular lore may have told us that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy after traveling through China, but that couldn't be ...
This thrilling, wide-ranging exhibition maps the complex connections among European and Asian civilizations from A.D. 500 to ...
A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.
The Gandhara art persisted until the 7th century and had some influence on the Buddhist sculptures seen in China and other ...
Even as companies continue to reveal plans to trim hundreds of jobs in the region, tech layoffs in the Bay Area are actually ...
“Boston Scientific will conduct layoffs at its facility … in Sunnyvale due to the company’s acquisition of Silk Road Medical ...
On October 25, the ninth Zhejiang Book Fair opened alongside the 2024 Maritime Silk Road Culture and Tourism Expo and the 2024 Ningbo International Tourism Expo at the Ningbo International ...
This he named die Seidenstrassen, the Silk Roads. It was not until 1938 that the term Silk Road appeared in English, as the title of a popular book by a Nazi-sympathizing Swedish explorer, Sven Hedin.
The Silk Road is credited with bringing advanced technologies ... than Silk Road carts and could also travel faster. In his new book The Golden Road, historian William Dalrymple argues that ...
So, farewell, Silk Roads; hello, Golden Road. So... are we more grateful to ... of the Sindhind of Brahmagupta, a 7th-century book of complex mathematical theory, which treated the symbol zero ...