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Growing Taliban influence in northern Afghanistan is threatening a new military supply line painstakingly negotiated by the U.S., as rising violence takes hold on the one-time Silk Road route.
Kazakhstan will receive a $700 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help complete an ambitious highway project that traces the ancient Silk Road trading route, the bank said Thursday.
For centuries, hospitality to weary travelers has been part of the Uighur culture. The Uighur land in what is now the far western province of China carried merchants traversing the famed Silk Road.
After musical trips to Appalachia, Brazil, Argentina, the Silk Road and baroque and modern Italy, Yo-Yo Ma has embarked on a spiritual journey.
Finally, China had an act of nature it could celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday, one week before the start of the Summer Games in Beijing.
Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo. (3) - By Daniel Brook - Slate MagazineThis is part 3 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.
Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo. (2) - By Daniel Brook - Slate MagazineThis is part 2 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.
Mohamed Atta confronts the historic Muslim monuments and modern high-rises of Cairo. (1) - By Daniel Brook - Slate MagazineThis is part 1 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.
Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silencedEnraged by Taliban oppression Malalai Joya became a women's rights activist, and after the US-led invasion, took on the new regime as an MP. But speaking out has come at a cost. She tells Johann Hari why death threats won't stop her exposing ugly truths about Afghanistan.
China riots: questions answeredOne of China's lesser-known people, the Uighurs are a Muslim ethnic minority who live in Xinjiang, an enormous oil-rich desert province to the north of Tibet and bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as several central Asian states. With a distinctively different physical …
Silk Road threatened by melting glaciers - environment - 14 June 2009 - New ScientistThe Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded – and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change.
Should Buddhas Blasted by the Taliban Be Rebuilt ? - TIME-YesThe Buddas had eyes like ours said Marzia Mohammadi, a midwife," they wanted to kill our culture, erase us from our home"
Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures: How a trove of priceless antiquities survived.Omara Khan Massoudi knows how to keep a secret. Massoudi is director of the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul.
World's Oldest Oil Paintings Found in AfghanistanOil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting...
24 Year Old British Woman to ride her horse from Britain to Japan, following ancient Silk RoadA young British woman is preparing to travel from London to Tokyo on horseback following ancient trading routes.
Exhibit Shows Ancient Links Between Persia and KoreaCultural exchange between Korea and Persia goes back more than a thousand years. Some historians say through the Silk Road, Muslim traders put the name, Shilla, Korea's ancient dynasty, on the world map.
Earliest oil paintings discoveredOil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.
$18 billion plan to build new 'Silk Roads' through Central AsiaEight countries on Saturday agreed to an $18 billion strategy to improve Central Asia's network of roads, airports, railway lines and seaports to make the region a vital transit route for trade between Europe and Asia - a modern-day equivalent of the ancient Silk Road.
European group uses Silk Route to reach Kashmir - first trip since '47 In a bid to revive one of the world's oldest trade routes, the Silk Route, a group of dedicated travelers from Europe has successfully traversed one side of the historic route and reached its important destination, the Kashmir Valley.
Bush Creating the Second Ottoman Empire?humor, politics, cartoons, comics, webcomics, PKK, kurdistan workers party, bush, operation enduring freedom, big oil, silk road, mongolia, mongols, turks, istanbul
Silk Road Typography and the European Union's 50th Anniversary LogoLate at night, after seeing a particularly vapid, unlikely or just plain idiotic television commercial, I'll often turn to my wife and say, "Can you imagine being in the meeting where that idea was presented?"
Editors' Blog | Tibetan Tea CaravanChinese tea caravan raises money to build schools in poor regions of China
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