Trade and commerce brought enriching effects, but undesirable phenomena such as disease were also transmitted on a...
Silk road
The parasites found within the 2,000-year-old-feces smeared on bamboo suggest more than commodities made the trip. By...
The city became an important center for trade along the Silk Road. Introduction Ctesiphon was an ancient...
The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea...
The European explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) traveled on these routes and described them in depth in...
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...