Important periods for the Silk Road were the Chinese Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-C.E. 220), the Chinese Tang dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols, who ...

This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that they nearly bankrupted their empire to buy it. Some things never change. There is little truly “old” about the old Silk Road. Today Muslim ...

Silk Road research previously "focused on the nomadic tribes and lowland empires that dominated the Uzbekistan region, often painting the highlands as marginal or peripheral to life in the valleys ...

During his reign (140-87 B.C.), the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wudi, expanded the territory of the empire from ... route known as the "Silk Road" from Chang ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central ... rise of the earliest Chinese empires, including those of the Qin ...

Excavations at Boncuklu Tarla, a Neolitihic site contemporary with Göbeklitepe, are revealing early evidence of human ...

The Silk Road, a vast web of interconnected trade paths ... These cities were part of the vast empire ruled by the Karakhanids, a powerful Turkic dynasty that controlled much of Central Asia.

Mention of the Silk Road transports many of us to a time of ... jaunty chronicle of the role played by horses in the rise of empires. It was not silk but the horse, he tells us, that drew buyers ...

Silk and silk products were highly valued commodities along the Silk Road and Margilan's contribution ... that has survived the collapse of empires and khanates thanks to the Uzbek artisans ...

Samsas and samosas came the other way on the Silk Road, from West to East when traders brought the early version, sambosas, ...

the Silk Road was a sprawling, ever-changing web of informal trading routes across the vast Eurasian landmass that evolved over more than a millennium of empire and invasion, destruction and ...