And for six particular sets of armor, the material you’ll need is silk. Silk armor? Ask a spider. Silk is a necessary component for crafting six unique armor sets. If you’re going for all of ...

And for six particular sets of armor, the material you’ll need is silk. Silk armor? Ask a spider. Silk is a necessary component for crafting six unique armor sets. If you’re going for all of ...

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress. Some suits of armor were designed to impress rather than to protect ...

from handwoven silk garments to decorative home textiles made with weaving styles such as adras, khan, ikat and suzani (geometric silk embroidery). These markets are great places to support local ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient and medieval trade routes connecting Beijing and Hangzhou with Constantinople and Cairo, has mostly been focused on its endpoints ...

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 ...

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans ... rich iron deposits into swords, armor, or tools.

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...