At the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Sichuan, China, researchers have confirmed the use of silk in sacrificial rituals ...

Be among the first to re-embrace this classic upholstery fabric, and bring some extra elegance, luxury, texture, and depth to ...

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

The luxurious textile that sparked the first global trade network may have been seen as more than just a material object in ancient China. Having discovered silk residues in a Bronze-Age sacrificial ...

A group of scientists from the Chinese National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and ...

China National Silk Museum and the Sichuan Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology have confirmed the use of ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

where it links up with the rail network in China. The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate ...

cultivation of silk has been an integral branch of Suzhou’s past. Cultivation and trade of the fabric in China as a whole dates back over 5,000 years. Silks were originally reserved for the ...

KHORGOS, China -- Trade is thriving along the "modern Silk Road," which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing ...