Not as well-known as major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, Gansu boasts the ancient city of Dunhuang, a regional and cultural hub along China’s ancient Silk Road. The gathering was part of ...

We are nearing the three-hour mark since the College of Cardinals ordered “everybody out” and started the conclave proper, a glacially slow, ancient ... architecture and art history await ...

Two ancient Silk Road sites in China - the Tuyugou Grottoes in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Xuanquanzhi Ruins in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu Province ...

It likely served as the central city site of its time in the area, and may even have been the capital of Dayuan, an ancient Hellenistic state on the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty. The ...

“The thousand-year friendship inherited from the ancient Silk Road has endured,” Wang told visiting Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani in a meeting on Monday. “In the past five ...

A 1,600-kilometer stretch of the ancient Silk Road passed through Gansu from east to west, linking the region to Asia and Europe through trade and cultural exchange. The interactions have ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today’s town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...