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 ...

Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang Qian's expedition westwards more than 2,000 years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into being. The path, known as the Silk Road ...

Image A map illustrating the cities that T’s contributors journeyed to for the May 17 Travel Issue alongside some of the many routes of the ancient Silk Road.Credit...Map by Daniel Wagner And so ...

Zhang Qian (ca.164 BC - 114 BC) was an influential diplomat of China's Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) and one of the pioneers of the Silk Road. The famous ancient Silk Road, which served as a ...