Located in the northwest of the Bukhara Oasis, the town of Varakhsha was once occupied by the Sogdians, an ancient people who lived on the Silk Road. Also on display is the renowned 8th Century ...

The 8th-century Shôsôin collection of objects, which originally belonged to a Japanese emperor, is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection ...

“Our findings seem to provide the first evidence that there was also an ‘Israeli Silk Road’ used by merchants ... India and modern-day Sudan during the 8th century CE were uncovered in ...

Yet another example of an artistic tradition that traveled the Silk Road is blue-and-white porcelain, which was produced in China from about the 13th century CE onward. Islamic potters decorated early ...

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate ... As early as the Neolithic ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries ... was used instead of medals to commend royals in the 12th Century. When it boomed internationally in the 19th Century ...

Traversed centuries ago by camel-back traders, two long-lost medieval cities that once thrived along the ancient Silk Road have been ... the first half of the 11th century, "a time of political ...

The legend deftly links the town’s Buddhist piety and its prosperity on the Silk Road. Among the last datable items that Stein found were eighth-century coins. Stein theorized that the town’s ...

Renowned for their sense of commerce and diplomacy along the Silk Road from Antiquity to the High ... From the second century BCE through the mid-15th century, it attracted merchants, diplomats ...

or Silk Road, was the fabled overland supply chain that famously allowed the supply of Chinese goods to reach ancient Rome from the second century BCE. In an ancient world without trains or planes ...

Often coined the "Eighth Wonder of the World", it's a road trip of dreams, yet few have ever heard of it, or how it came to be. The KKH was once a leg of the Silk ... the 20th Century due to ...