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

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese ... which brought a busy trade to Xinjiang. Ancient central China's silk products, iron ware, gold and platinum, bronze mirror ...

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.

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 ...

The luxurious textile that sparked the first global trade network may have been seen as more than just a material object in ancient China ... the opening of the Silk Road, positioning this ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.In a ...

A landmark exhibition of Chinese artworks, many over 1,500 years old, is now on display in New York. The exhibition, Gold ...

The project is seen as a new Silk Road which, just like the ancient trade ... is legally protected for products items processed "mainly" in Italy. In recent years, Chinese factories based in ...

By Karen Taylor In a world dominated by globalization it is hard to imagine that something is unavailable for purchase. This ...

The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because ... could be for China’s access to the Arabian Sea – if China wants to send its products westward ...