Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 visitor slots per day. The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the ...

China is home to 22 of the Silk Road's 33 UNESCO heritage sites ... The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the seventh century, where murals, woodware, pottery, fabrics and paintings on silk ...

By James Amoh Junior, GNA Special Correspondent in Beijin, ChinaBeijing, April 23, GNA – The majestic Great Wall of China, is ...

The institute of cultural relics protection in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has announced progress has been ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Sarianidi first came to the Bactrian plain in 1969 to search for traces of the Silk Road. After excavating ruins of a first-century a.d ... he could excavate a seventh grave; it would later ...

A cliff-face cavity is all that remains of one of two sixth-century Buddha sculptures ... had taken root across the region along the Silk Road—made annual pilgrimages here to offer donations ...

Thanks to climate change—the gift that keeps on taking—China is advancing its so-called Polar Silk Road, an icy reimagining ... It is the grand paradox of the 21st century: the more the ...

Bengaluru: A 1,334-year-old Kannada inscription, dating back to the 7th century CE, was unearthed by chance at Madapura village, Nyamati taluk, Davanagere district, during a routine desilting of a ...

Though the BRI has drawn ample media coverage, it also has a pivotal yet lower-profile subplot known as the Digital Silk Road (DSR) — a digital transformation project with the potential to ...