Artnet

China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...
insider.si.edu

Silk : trade and exchange along the silk roads between Rome and China in antiquity / edited by Berit Hildebrandt with Carole Gillis

Introduction. Silk on the Silk Roads : Exchange between East and West in Antiquity / Berit Hildebrandt. Looking towards the West : how the Chinese viewed the Romans / Liu Xinru -- Textiles and trade ...
The New York Times

On the Silk Road, Traces of Once Bustling Intercontinental Trade

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth between Europe and China. The courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, ...