The term Silk Road denotes a network of trails and trading posts, oases and emporia connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean. Along the way, branch routes led to different destinations from the main ...

Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

The best silk pillowcases are billed as helping to improve your skin and hair, while also making for a luxurious addition to your bedding. Silk is less absorbent than cotton – and won’t wick ...

Which brings us to something everyone will appreciate: silk pyjamas. Whether or not you’re already planning what to wear for upcoming nights out (or in), then you’ll want to know about these ...

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lotus silk is one of the rarest fabrics in the world, produced only in small scale across Cambodia, Myanmar, and, more recently, Vietnam.

Religious beliefs of the peoples of the Silk Road changed radically over time and was largely due to the effects of travel and trade on the Silk Road itself. For over two thousand years the Silk Road ...

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

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Taking you on trade routes from from Japan to Britain, this new exhibition proves just how vibrant the so-called Dark Ages really were ‘Ah, the Silk Road!’ you nod, sagely. That romanticised ...

A journey from Xi'an, the birthplace of the Silk Road in China, to Lanzhou in the country's north-west, discovering the legacy of goods like tea and silk, the impact of imported ideas like ...