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 ...

Before paper was invented, the ancient Chinese carved characters on pottery, animal bones and stones, cast them on bronzes, or wrote them on bamboo or wooden strips and silk fabric. These ...

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 ... In dealing with the context of the Silk Road, it is ...

beliefs and inventions. Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world ...

Early on in its invention, demand was so great ... to be in possession of an exclusive piece of Suzhou silk is to hold a piece of China’s history in your hands. It’s a must-have for any ...

Khotan is now in western China ... Silk Road in history - it's almost impossible to exaggerate its importance, I think, in the movement of peoples, the movement of goods, the transport of ...

This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that ... Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten backwater in the current of global news.

The jiaozi – or Chinese dumpling – originated ... the country’s ancient capital and the starting point of the Silk Road. There they visit one of the city’s most famous restaurants ...