A key highlight of the event will be the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads photo contest. The event will showcase the 60 best photos from this year’s competition, ...

Until the early twentieth century, the Central Asian economy was overwhelmingly rural, and thus agrarian trade was by far the most important trading activity. The impact of technological advances ...

Marriage of Venice to the sea, is one of the city's best known festivals that bring to life its thousand year history and its close ties to the sea and the art of "Voga alla Veneta" rowing. The Sensa ...

From the mid-seventh century, Muslim Arab armies from Saudi Arabia began to travel north into Central Asia and west across Africa, invading the countries they passed. The Sasanian Empire, exhausted ...

Cities grew up along the Silk Roads as essential hubs of trade and exchange, here merchants and travellers came to stop and rest their animals and begin the process of trading their goods. From Xi’an ...

In 1975, the discovery of Chinese ceramics in the sea near Shinan launched a series of underwater excavations close to the Korean peninsula. They revealed a shipwreck which was subsequently explored ...

The Silk Roads were a driving force behind significant cultural exchange across many different parts of the world. Throughout the long history of these routes, a blending of civilizations and people ...

The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the artistic and religious developments which from the 1st to the 13th centuries characterized ancient Bakhtria, ...

UNESCO is pleased to announce the winners of the 6th edition of the "Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads” international photo contest. UNESCO calls on young people around the world, aged 14 to 25 years old, ...

The vast trade networks of the Silk Roads carried more than just merchandise and precious commodities. In fact, the constant movement and mixing of populations brought about the widespread ...

Ghengis Khan and his Mongol armies rose to power at the end of the twelfth century, at a moment when few opposing rulers could put up much resistance to them. The vast Mongol empire he created ...