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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the submerged ruins of a medieval Silk Road city beneath Lake Issyk-Kul. Located in ...

By Karen Taylor The famed silk roads, which connected ancient China to the rest of the world, were not so named until many ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever marveled at the intricate history woven into the delicate threads of silk, a fabric whose story is as rich and ...

Program in West Pittston looks back at era when more than 25 area mills employed thousands of women. Bob and Nancy Eble of Harding look over an album of photos of old silk mills in West Pittston. Fred ...

The maison produced nearly 80 scarf designs between 1960 and 1981 - from the intricate Flora, created for Princess Grace of Monaco, to the iconic Horsebit in 1953, and GG Monogram in 1969 For those ...

In this reported feature, associate editor Aiyana Ishmael dives into the long history of the silk press hairstyle and how it's shaped young women years after its first introduction to the Black ...