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The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints: China and the ...

In spite of the name, the Silk Road was not a road, but actually an entire trade route network which was active from the 2nd Century A.D. until the mid-15th Century. It was an intricate web of land ...

A Chinese container ship has become the first to complete a China-to-Europe voyage along an Arctic shipping route dubbed the "Ice Silk Road." A map created by Newsweek traces the pioneering 26-day ...