The traces of ancient roads survive across the globe, revealing how connections were forged from region to region and country to country. Some routes persist only as memories; some have been ...

ANCIENT ROADS FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE charts Christianity's evolution from a small movement to the largest religion in the world, with more than two billion followers. Host Jonathan Phillips ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

A new road trip of the Southwest’s Indigenous heartlands offers travellers a greater understanding of the past, present and ...

Shu is short for Sichuan, and was its ancient name as well. The ancient Shu Road is a system spanning more than 1,000 ...

The Ancient Tea Horse Road played an instrumental role in fostering trade, cultural exchange, and economic growth across China and neighbouring regions. Though abandoned, it remains an iconic ...

The ancient Colombo Kandy route is 13 miles longer than its modern counterpart but it is not the added miles that would have defeated modern motorists. The palanquins and elephants that moved along it ...

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 ...

Nowruz is a rite dating back to the 6th century BCE, marking the ushering in of spring and the new year. Variously known as ...

Hope Justman (front left), an 82-year-old scholar from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hikes on the ancient Shu Road in Guangyuan, Sichuan province, on March 19. [Photo provided to China Daily] For ...