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 ...

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There are many unanswered questions about the evolution of the ancient ‘Silk Roads’ across Asia. This is especially the case in their mountainous stretches, where harsh terrain is seen as an ...

Luxury trains seem to be having a moment. Leaders in the space, Belmond, are always revealing new routes, rooms and advancements on their global luxury trains, while Orient Express, recently acquired ...

China’s ancient capital of Chang’an (today known as Xi’an) is the start of one of Unesco’s world heritage “Silk Roads” routes. Credit: Xi’an image via Shutterstock.com Subscribe for ads-free reading ...

Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by ...

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This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dynamite comes from Ankara. Ten tons, and it takes two days. The truck climbs carefully, screwing 2,500 feet up the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. The New Silk Road is the defacto label applied to the ...

Where would you hide $3.4 billion worth of Bitcoin? For James Zhong, the ideal spot was to store it on a computer — with its circuitry exposed — placed in a used Cheetos popcorn tin hidden in a ...