The Silk Road was born over two millennia ago ... The man tasked with these missions was a diplomat and explorer named Zhang Qian. Qian didn’t accomplish this overnight, obviously. In fact, it took ...

The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE. A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with ...

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 ...

More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) named Zhang Qian ... historic saga of the Silk Road began.

An exhibition that focuses on the imperial envoy of Zhang Qian's diplomatic missions ... Asia opened up a route that later became the Silk Road.

Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang Qian's expedition westwards more than 2,000 years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into being. The path, known as the Silk Road ...

Two thousand years of Silk Road warfare are preserved in an alpine ... To see whether war left a lasting imprint in these lakes, Shanjia Zhang at Lanzhou University, China, and his colleagues ...