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 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 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 ...

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 (164-114 ... historic saga of the Silk Road began.