Today Muslim Central Asia—the main backdrop of Silk Road history—may seem like a forgotten ... New York Public Library preserved one day as artifacts under glass, much like Khiwa.

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China ... Students will appreciate the creativity and craftsmanship of artifacts from ancient ...

Inside, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a man and a woman, identified as SUTE1 and SUTE2, along with artifacts reflecting strong ... key architects of what we now call the “Silk Road,” that ...

The Silk Road is a term used to designate a group of ... a paragraph of information along with diagrams and photographs of artifacts to further illustrate the battles that changed history, weapons and ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

Until recently, my vague idea of the Silk Road, the trade link from ancient east Asia to the West, was of camels crossing ...

Researchers have concluded that glass beads excavated from the tomb of a king in Fukuoka Prefecture were likely brought to Japan through the ancient Silk Road trade ... an artifact made of two ...

Silk was a pivotal material in the development of global trade along the Silk Road, which derives its ... layers of ash and burned artifacts, including bronze and jade, have been uncovered in ...

The ancient city may hold an even greater wealth of artifacts that could supply archaeologists ... new heights of stature at the dawn of the Silk Road, around the second century BCE.

Xi'an, Shaanxi province, is the starting point of the overland Silk Road, while Ningbo ... exhibition in Ningbo's history. Transporting these invaluable artifacts was a daunting undertaking.