Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
TheStreet.com7y
The Rise and Fall of America’s New Silk Road Strategy
On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...
Live Science on MSN4d
Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...
The Astana Times6d
New Silk Road? Malaysia-Kazakhstan’s Next Chapter in Religious Governance
History has handed Malaysia and Kazakhstan a second chance to walk the Silk Road—not as mere travelers, but as architects of ...
Khaleej Times on MSN9d
Transcontinental ‘silk road’ project gains traction
The $20 billion India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEEC), also known as the 'New Silk Road,' is back on track after ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung2y
China’s new «Silk Road» needs to slim down, but it’s not dead
The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate this criticism. Laos’ public debt to economic ...
VOA Uzbek: Russian-Ukraine war fuels resurgence of the new Silk Road
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ensuing Western sanctions, landlocked Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan are trying to find alternative trade routes to access seaports and the world market ...
Artnet News1d
China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...