After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road ... At that time Silk Road entrepôts in Uzbekistan such as Khiwa, Buxoro ...

In the aftermath of the Kargil War, Muzzamil Hussain's family unearthed a treasure of Silk Road artefacts in their ancestral property near Kargil's bazaar. In 1999, during the violent onset of the ...

The Silk Road was ... China at that time. In 73AD, the Han government sent a diplomatic mission of 36 people led by Ban Chao to Xiyu and his assistant Gan Ying arrived at Daqin (ancient Rome ...

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

Do NOT read the descriptions of the artifacts to the students at this time. 4. Ask students to use their word maps to generate ... lives in ancient China. Slide 1: Striding cavalry horse Horses held ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe ... the second century BC and the 15th century AD," said the Times. Several cities emerged along the route but "once trade ...

At first, Hussain's family was unsure of what to do with the ancient ... At that time, Kargil was known as an important hub on the Treaty Road – a branch of the old Silk Road that connected ...