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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This year, T’s spring Travel issue is devoted to just five stories, each an account of its writer’s journey along a different section of the Silk Road — the ancient network of trade routes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jiangsu today has a host of ancient sites and tourism resources dedicated to celebrating the achievements of the Maritime Silk Road ... there lived a Tang-dynasty monk by the name of Jianzhen.
Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been uncovered ... On conventional maps, trade routes spanning ...
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 ...