To most Westerners, the Silk Road conjures images of exoticism ... inlays from the Han Dynasty, on display in the Beijing National Museum in 2008. (Credit: Gary Lee Todd/Wikimedia Commons) In addition ...

The Silk Road was a vast system of trade routes that stretched from the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an all the way to Rome on the Italian Peninsula. For more than 1,000 years, it was the most ...

Personal-hygiene sticks and extra-large scented paper The Silk Road, a network of ancient travel and trade, had many of ... believed to date back to the Han Dynasty around 2,000 years ago.