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 ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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A Chinese worker directs another to load a container of China Railway Express onto a freight train bound to Europe at a railway station in Shanghai, China, May 16, 2017. On September 7, 2013, Chinese ...