Many popular foods can be traced back to trade caravans and herding groups that turned Central Asia into a hub of globalization several thousand years ago. In Fruit from the Sands, archaeobotanist ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nadja Spiegelman THE SILK ROAD By Kathryn Davis If writers can be said to have an animating ...

China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Join CSIS for a discussion with ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Canadian writer Kate Harris describes an epic 10-month ...

With its mix of Silk Road landmarks, Soviet-era architecture, striking natural landscapes, and artisan hubs, Uzbekistan has a ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco – It’s morning under the Atlas Mountains and publishing legend Alexandra Pringle is taking a savage blue pencil to a very nice paragraph. At least I thought it was a very nice ...

The director of a new film about Silk Road says he found striking parallels between the issues surrounding the online drug bazaar and Napster, the original music-sharing service. Richard Nieva was a ...

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically short shrift in the exhibition, which has elsewhere been met with raves. Map of the world from al-Idrisi’s Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq ...