Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten ... New York Public Library preserved one day as artifacts under glass, much like Khiwa.
Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China ... Students will appreciate the creativity and craftsmanship of artifacts from ancient ...
Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...
A Tang Dynasty tomb unearthed in northwest China has shed new light on the lives and heritage of the Sogdians, ancient traders who played a vital role in connecting cultures along the Silk Road. The ...
Silk was a key material in the development of the global trade network along the Silk Road. Due to the organic ... uncovered layers of ash and burned artifacts, such as bronze and jade, in eight ...
Silk was a pivotal material in the development of global trade along the Silk Road, which derives its ... layers of ash and burned artifacts, including bronze and jade, have been uncovered in ...
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... At the time of the burials, Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with the West ...
French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries, from the Late Bronze Age to the ...
ASTANA – The Zhambyl Region is one of Kazakhstan’s most historically rich regions, home to ancient mysteries, sacred ...