How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...

History has handed Malaysia and Kazakhstan a second chance to walk the Silk Road—not as mere travelers, but as architects of ...

It is a pity that China did not keep the name –Silk Road – something ... “The 'Belt and Road' cooperation is entering into a new stage,” the Chinese ambassador to the EU Zhang Ming ...

The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate this criticism. Laos’ public debt to economic ...

From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...

And from day one we begin bumping into the Silk Road’s new silk: hydrocarbons. The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...