Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, the Sogdians ...

One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to the ancient Silk Road network linking the Roman ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. Muzzamil Hussain was in ...

In 3000 BC, the empire of Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) traded with neighbouring regions. Around the same time, Minoans in modern-day Crete traded around the Mediterranean coast, Chinese diplomat ...

Representing a united heritage and respect for the collective history of our world, this is how to visit all seven modern ...

The history of the passport is complex and long. From Ancient China to classical Rome, passport-like documents have been used ...

Credit: Carole Raddato, Flickr CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Byzantine Empire, which was known at the time as the Eastern Roman Empire, maintained a relatively ... The well-known Silk Road was obviously the ...

Photograph by Art Archive ... by the greater empire to the west: Rome. In A.D. 106, the emperor Trajan annexed the Nabataean territories, and the area became known as the Roman province of Arabia ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for giving him a full and unconditional pardon. In a video posted online, a visibly emotional ...

When the Roman Empire ruled what is now called England ... One example is King Street, a stretch of road that was said to have been built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian between 117 and 138 AD. It ...

The creator of dark web drug selling site Silk Road has profusely thanked Donald Trump for pardoning him. Ross Ulbricht, 40, was arrested in 2013 and jailed in 2015 after a jury found his site ...