Was the Silk Road ever a coherent path? The term was coined by a German ... mostly because of the destruction of Buddhist statues by the Taleban in Bamiyan. How strong was Buddhism in what is now ...
Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... A bolt of silk and ceramic statues of ...
It has been a hub of communications between China's Central Plain and northwestern China and an important point on the Silk Road that linked ... clay and stone statues and 1,300 square meters ...