The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

Whatever silken souvenir you manage to take back with you, to be in possession of an exclusive piece of Suzhou silk is to hold a piece of China’s history in your hands. It’s a must-have for ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Kail donated a photobook documenting the behaviors of Japanese forces in China during World War II. In recognition of his ...

The kitties were given as gifts to the local elites by Western ... cats have origins in the Middle East and arrived in China via the Silk Road. The study was published on the preprint server ...

According to a study recently published on the preprint server bioRxiv, cats were one of the many assets that traveled east on the famous Silk Road ... arrival in China—as gifts given to ...