Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid the ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand ... and Turpan again became a frontier town of China, serving as a stopover for merchants, monks, and ...

Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

The Silk Road network is generally thought of as stretching from an eastern terminus at the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an (now Xi’an) to westward end-points at Byzantium (Constantinople), ...

Coming at last to China on our west-to-east survey of the ancient faith of the Silk Road, we find that rulers worshipped their own ancestors in great ancestral temples; they were joined by commoners ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang Dynasty (618 ...

A total of 29 deals amounting to €2.5bn ($2.8bn) were signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Rome. The project is seen as a new Silk Road which, just like the ancient trade route ...

Ancient Tea Route of China, also know as Southern Silk Road, was one of the biggest established trade routes between China and Europe. In today Happy Map, Ivan has invited Senior flight attendant ...

“Silk was the driving force behind the opening of the Silk Road ... accounts of Chinese sericulture - which refers to the rearing of silkworms \- can be traced to the ancient Shu State, which ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...