People walk in front of the British Museum in London LONDON (Reuters) - A new exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week.

Kargil's Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum displays Silk Route trade artefacts. A BBC podcast explores these ancient trade routes.

A much-lauded art historian argues that India gets drastically short shrift in the exhibition, which has elsewhere been met with raves. Map of the world from al-Idrisi’s Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq ...

An international museum alliance initiated by China was established on Thursday in Beijing to enhance cross-border studies of the Silk Road, the ancient Eurasian trade route. The more than 100 ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, caravans, silks and spices in a web of pathways ...

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--During the 3rd Silk Road Week in July 2022, the China National Silk Museum held three exhibitions consecutively in Hangzhou, Dulan, and Samarkand, namely Qinghai Path ...

Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought porcelain, tea and other goods from Asia to Africa, the Middle East and Europe ...

QUANZHOU, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 11 December 2025 - As the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road and a ...