Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

Trade over land and sea that began two thousand years ago led to the formation of The Silk Road. Join anthropologist Ian McIntosh as he takes viewers on a fascinating visit to some of the key ...