The world is full of legendary highways but none can compete with the Silk Road – the storied route set to fascinate the masses at the British Museum in a new exhibition (September 26 to ...

Let us revisit her short-lived but eventful career on the occasion of her death anniversary. Vijayalakshmi, widely known by her screen name Silk Smitha, was born on December 2, 1960. Over an 18-year ...

Silk Roads is about lots more than silk. John Masefield summed up the allure of trade with the east in his poem Cargoes: “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,/Rowing home to haven in sunny ...

Silk Roads, which opens at the British Museum next week and brings together an extraordinary group of images, artefacts and objects that reveal the interconnections that held much of the world ...