The biodiversity hotspot of Assam is home to a curious silkworm that founded a textile heritage as far back as 321 BCE. Its creations spawned an industry alluded to in the pages of the Ramayana ...

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On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

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a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road. Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, the trade routes were long believed to have linked ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route ...