Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove ...

When I learned about Silk & Snow's Wooden Bed frame, I was eager to test it. And test it I did. Made of sustainable wood with three headboard options (fabric, rattan, or solid wood), the bed frame ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce. Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been ...

Bosses at Neal's Yard Dairy said the firm had lost clothbound Cheddar worth more than £300,000 after they were conned by a fraudulent buyer posing as a legitimate wholesale distributor for a ...

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The settlements, Tashbulak and Tugunbulak, are “among the largest ever documented in the mountainous parts of the Silk Road,” according to a statement from Washington University. The ...

A new study published October 23 in the journal Nature has revealed that the two cities — Tugunbulak and Tashbulak — were major urban centers that lay on medieval Silk Road trading routes.

Hold the phone: if you’re new to the concept of sleeping in a silk hair wrap it’s time to get acquainted with Silke. Where most hair wraps seem aesthetically unpleasing, this one is wholly ...

TASHKENT - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have identified two lost cities that thrived along the fabled Silk Road trade route from ...

An aerial survey has revealed hundreds of medieval archaeological features thousands of feet above sea level along the famous Silk Road—a network of ancient trade routes that connected ...

For more than 10 years now, the Yard Theatre has been producing some of the boldest fringe theatre in London out of a concrete warehouse in Hackney, bringing a subversive buzzy aesthetic as ...