Along the two sides of the ancient Silk Road, the Great Wall defense facilities, such as beacon towers and fortresses, were built to ensure regional peace and smooth passage. These structures ...

History The Great Wall of China, one of the most remarkable ... the Wall also facilitated trade and control along the Silk Road. After the Ming era, the Wall fell into disrepair under the Qing ...

Xi’an is also the starting point of the network of trading routes known as the Silk Road ... an wall faced the threat of demolition during the 1950s as part of the country’s Great Leap ...

Remnant of the Great Wall dated to the Han Dynasty (206 ... Raw jade once traveled through the corridor, part of the ancient Silk Road, to workshops where it was transformed into exquisite ritual ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World." Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road ...