The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... school and a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, led ...

Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Xinjiang ... and inscriptions in multiple languages, including Chinese and Old Uygur. The caves are arranged in two ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading ... them into Chinese folk religion, Luo said. "Ancient Chinese people even ...

The basin was a vital cultural hub connecting Chinese and Central Asian civilizations along the ancient Silk Road. "Turpan now has become one of the most publicly loved and accessible cave sites ...