Ancient central China's silk products, iron ware ... Apart from Buddhist art work, these grottoes also reflect the production and living condition of ancient people. On the ancient Silk Road ...

Delve into the ancient techniques and ... is well known as the silk capital of China and, during the Tang and Song dynasties, it was the centre of silk production. This continued into the Ming ...

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 ...

Khotanese story-tellers created a legend to explain how the secrets of silk production - for thousands ... ago and monopolised it for so long - ancient China. Long before the Roman Empire appeared ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

China’s beloved drunken poet died centuries ago—or did he? Discover Jiangsu: ancient gateway to the Maritime Silk Road Discover Jiangsu: ancient gateway to the Maritime Silk Road Rediscovering ...

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.