The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. And where is the Qizilqum? Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan ...

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

While such a story is not backed by archaeological evidence, the city flourished as a trading centre a few centuries later, after the Silk Road opened, providing a connection between Europe ...

NARA--An eighth-century pantry unearthed in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand suggests the ... The complex was likely burnt when the Umayyad dynasty of Arabs attacked Central Asia.