Steer’s awe-inspiring photographs capture contemporary views of life along a series of 1,500-year-old trade routes.

As his journey around the world continues, writer Paul Salopek encounters the enduring spirits of one of history’s great trade routes ... that follows the ancient Silk Road.

That route from the Persian Gulf to Inner Mongolia was just one of many making up the ancient ... the major trade routes along those roads. The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to ...

Kuwait said about 73 percent of the work on its ambitious $3-billion Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah Causeway project (also known as The Subbiya bridge), has been completed and the 36-km-long ...

It took in land and water routes ... ancient castle in Loulan. It is located northwest of Lop Nor, a strategic pass of the ancient Silk Road. The castle has a rich history with prosperous trade ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... Migration routes might have influenced the genetic makeup of ancient ...

The route, which started in Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, was once the main corridor for trade and cultural ... a critical node on the ancient Silk Road, its grottoes reveal a ...