Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from ...

Kiara Advani served a stunning look at the Game Changer teaser launch event in a white floral dress, and it was breathtaking.

It features the revival of Abu Sandeep’s ‘Crushed Silk’ collection, created by serendipity. The dress is made with pure khadi silk, and has a crushed texture “so hypnotic that it flows like an endless ...

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 ...

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a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk Road. Known for the exchange of goods and ideas between the East and West, the trade routes were long believed to have linked ...

Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were ...

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 ...

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 ...