History has handed Malaysia and Kazakhstan a second chance to walk the Silk Road—not as mere travelers, but as architects of ...

Once a major world religion, Manichaeism spread across the Silk Road, blending elements of Christianity, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism. Founded by the prophet Mani in the 3rd century, it preached a ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Armed with anecdotes, historical evidence, maps and slides, the author-historian outlined India's ancient soft power in his ...

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

The Silk Road's heyday lasted between A.D. 500 and 800 ... popular following their introduction to China that people ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in ...

"Initially, cats were considered valuable exotic pets," said study co-author Shu-Jin Luo, according to Live Science. Upon ...

Although it's been used since at least the ninth millennium B.C. in religious ceremonies ... The cemetery lay on the main route of the Silk Road. The site was dated to 2,200 to 2,050 years ...