After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

puts China no closer to Europe than to New York, which can be reached in 24 days from China via the Panama Canal. And the Polar Silk Road will only be open in the summer for decades to come.

Africa and Europe. In the 19th century, when the name of Silk Road was first used by a German geographer, it just included the land road from China's Xinjiang to central Asia. Later it was ...

It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called ‘the Arctic Silk Road’ is getting ... time for ships journeying from China to Europe, saving time and fuel.

The construction of a railroad line from China ... Silk Road path that passes through Russia, Belarus, and Poland. With this investment, Beijing will gain additional shipping options to Europe.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I travel the world reporting on emerging markets and China overseas. The New Silk Road is the defacto label applied to the emerging network ...

The project is seen as a new Silk Road which, just like the ancient trade route, aims to link China to Europe. Italy's European Union allies and the United States have expressed concern at China's ...

Johns Hopkins Professor Fred Starr has advocated a New Silk Road for decades. His concept is transcontinental in scope and runs from China to Europe via Central and South Asia. But the U.S ...

Far superior to the narrow wooden strips or hard-to-handle rolls of silk that the Chinese had previously used for writing, paper soon became the writing material of choice throughout China ... Europe ...