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 ...

Zhang Qian (ca.164 BC - 114 BC) was an influential diplomat of China's Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) and one of the pioneers of the Silk Road. The famous ancient Silk Road, which served as a ...

the Silk Road began to serve as an important trunk road where the economic, political and cultural exchanges between the Orient and the West were taking place. Tomb of Zhang Qian is seated at ...

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 ...

Zhang Haijun, general manager of the winery explains the production process of Loulan wine in Turpan on August 22. [Photos by Liao Wei/China Daily] They emerged with a rich Silk Road culture and ...

BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Some 2,100 years ago, or 1,600 years before Italian explorer Christopher Columbus found the New World, ancient Chinese General Zhang Qian braved a world of uncertainties ...

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 ...