Dunes, oases and single files of camels shuttling goods east to west — the Silk Road originates in modern day Xi’An, the ...

The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium ... so retaliated by embargoing trade with Europe. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China was once again shut off from the outside world ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

More people and partners from both the US and China can join the cause in promoting programs and ...

Researchers from the Han and Ming Great Wall conservation and research ... It was a location that had to be passed, both on the Silk Road as well as on today's Eurasian Land Bridge, and was ...

It vividly resurrects the prosperous maritime trade during the mid-Ming Dynasty, serving as a crucial testament to China's ancient Maritime Silk Road trade and cultural exchanges. So far ...

The Ming dynasty built a giant wall stretching ... (See also: Trading Silk for Horses: Origins of the Silk Road.) Contact between northern nomads and the people of China was based as much on ...

Archaeology 2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were ... have unearthed a Ming Dynasty tomb that belonged to Lady Mei. Inscribed stone epitaphs ...

researchers say Ancient silk paintings dating to China's Ming dynasty have yielded new clues about the domestication of brown rats, which according to researchers, could have spread to the rest of ...