Important periods for the Silk Road were the Chinese Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-C.E. 220), the Chinese Tang dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols, who ...

An "elite grave" discovered in the remnants of an abandoned fortress ... silk textiles placed beneath her head, which was covered in a birchbark headdress. Related: Painted saddle found in ...

Deep in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia lies the abandoned city of Khara-Khoto, which was founded nearly 1,000-years-ago but was abandoned after a crushing defeat.

NARA--An eighth-century pantry unearthed in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand suggests ... The remains of the pantry were found in Kafir Kala, a fortress 30 kilometers to the southeast ...