The War of the Heavenly Horses set the stage for an epic confrontation between the ancient Greeks of the Bactrian Kingdom and ...

In the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-25 AD), Chinese envoy Zhang Qian began his journey to the West via Central Asia, and opened up a trade route that later became the Silk Road. Originally a setting ...

According to the chief producer Zhuang Dianjun, the first two parts of the series to air will focus on stories of two historical figures, Zhang Qian and Wang Dayuan. The "Legend of the Silk Road: ...

BEIJING, 29th May, 2025 (WAM) -- A group of archaeologists in China have uncovered concrete evidence proving that material exchanges between the East and West began long before the Silk Road was ...

Dunhuang's location, over 1,000 kilometers from the Chinese heartland and a vital stop along the ancient Silk Road made it both ... after the mission of Zhang Qian, the pioneering envoy who ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov centre to a mountain village famous for its seasonal samsa. Uzbekistan ...

I had tried to locate those untrodden peaks, to map the creased and ... the horse that made the Silk Road possible, the Ferghana horse that reputedly sweated blood. The horse is really the story of ...

Raw jade once traveled through the corridor, part of the ancient Silk Road, to workshops where it ... also traversed this route, long before Zhang Qian's landmark journey. "The pass is a physical ...

"This is the first and only known case of cinnabar being used to stain teeth in antiquity and throughout the world," study senior author Qian Wang ... route of the Silk Road.