He survived, though stripped of his fine robes. Xuanzang, a seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk, walked thousands of miles of the Silk Road, crossing the Hindu Kush where few modern climbers dare.

The Silk Road was a network of land and sea-based trade routes that connected parts of the African, Asian, and European ...

During the 7th and 8th centuries ... and in the 16th century Portuguese and other Europeans sailed to East Asia. Many important scientific and technological innovations migrated along the Silk Road to ...

Although German geographers first coined the term “Silk Roads” in the early-19th century to describe the trade in silk between Han-dynasty China (206 BC-AD 220), Central Asia and beyond, it ...

On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

Tourists view murals in the Ya'er Lake Grottoes in the city of Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, ...

Samarkand’s Silk Road past is woven into its present ... offering a rare glimpse into 7th-century life. In Konigil, craftsman Zarif Mukhtarov revives the lost art of Samarkand Silk Paper ...

The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE. A general called Zhang Qian was sent to the Far West by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty to make contact with ...

PRNewswire/ The 7th Maritime Silk Road (Fuzhou ... designed to accelerate the construction of the Core Area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The festival has been held for six consecutive ...

China is home to 22 of the Silk Road's 33 UNESCO heritage sites ... The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the seventh century, where murals, woodware, pottery, fabrics and paintings on silk ...