Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

Ya'er Lake Grottoes in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Photo: VCG. Following AR (augmented reality ...

O ne of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese ...

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

The jade king could not make silk, because the emperor had kept the ... thousand years ago and monopolised it for so long - ancient China. Long before the Roman Empire appeared, silk was already ...

Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

(Photo by Liu Jian/Xinhua) Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.