Fa Xian's "Note on Buddhist Country" and Xuan Zang's "Notes about Tang's Xiyu" are important works of research in the history of ancient Xiyu, India and the Silk Road. From 1222 to 1223 ...

Michael Wood looks at the opening of the Silk Road & 'the beginnings of universal history' Michael takes a ... during China’s brilliant Tang dynasty, this was a crossroads of the world: "East ...

In a major new exhibit opening tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History, the fabled trade ... is an illuminated interactive map of the Silk Road, where you can investigate, by means ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk ... Han and Tang dynasties on and around the Silk Road. It was the first to build a system ...

A tablet inscribed with 580 characters depicting the life story of Li Chonghui has recently been found in a Tang ... ancient Xizhou was an important hub for exchanges along the ancient Silk Road ...

Editor’s Note: Sumnima Udas is CNN’s presenter of ‘The Silk Road: Past ... of malls and hotels called the Tang West market, you can still see some of the ancient tracks the old caravans ...

Nomads’ contributions to the Silk Road need to be explored further by looking for more highland sites that map onto ancient herders’ simulated travel routes, Honeychurch says. Herding groups ...

Along the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road, archaeologists have unearthed ... which date back to the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907), also contain a number of well-preserved utensils made ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists have mapped the footprints of two medieval cities that thrived along the Silk Road ... ancient trading network. “We could really change the ...

“For the first time, Australian audiences are able to appreciate the high artistic achievements and rich history of this golden age of China as Tang: treasures from the Silk Road capital opens ...