Over 1,400 years ago, they found their way onto the legendary Silk Road by padding alongside merchants ... Genghis Khan and his Mongol warriors weren't known for their soft side, but even the ...

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 ...

Khara-Khoto, also called Khar khot (meaning "black city" in Mongolian), is a ruined fortified ... a stretch of the Silk Road on the trade route between North China and Central Asia.

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 ...