Uzbek law had to be changed to allow the country’s most prized artefacts to travel to the UK: detail from the south wall of the ‘Hall of the Ambassadors’ in ...

What is the future of silk, this material that humans have coveted for many thousands of years? What is its past? It’s a fiber made by spiders, some moths, and even certain mollusks. Archeological ...

The result is a truly global map of silk history, one that shows how Chinese textiles functioned not only as luxury goods, ...

Silk is not typically associated with Africa, but the luxurious cloth has been produced there for centuries. Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) now on view ...

Silk goddess, a sculpture revealed in 1987 in downtown Nanchong, Sichuan province, is a landmark and symbol of a city that has witnessed the rise and prosperity of China's silk industry. It is ...

The exhibition is placed throughout the Granary Square area of King’s Cross in London. Here the viewer is encouraged to take a journey across desert, mountain, and sea. Each of these aspects, together ...

Silk Roads is encyclopedic in scope and structure, and made up of several dozen short essays by almost as many different authors – each lavishly illustrated with indescribable photos of objects and ...

Bethlehem Steel's rise and fall is closely interwoven into the family histories of all those who worked there. But there's another Bethlehem company that anchored the east Bethlehem community in the ...

Lavish decorations from Sogdian palaces in Panjikent attest to the rewards of trade across Asia. On a high valley terrace on the banks of the Zeravshan River of Central Asia are the ruins of ancient ...