The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian Empire of ancient Persia, and the Kushan Empire which ...

Xuanzang's journey in India is reviving the country's forgotten Buddhist heritage. Deepak Anand, a researcher and heritage ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan discover a 2,000-year-old jug inscribed with its owner’s name, shedding light on ancient Kushan ...

The Silk Road wasn’t a single road, but a vast network of land and sea trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean.

Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road--those who made them, carried them, received them ...

Rather than immediately putting Guts to death or exiling him entirely from Kushan, the wise men of the empire have decided that the protagonist will take a different path.

Treasures Along the Silk Roads Overview: Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will ...

China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Political-Economic Calculations of Southeast Asian States ...

This property is a 5,000 km section of the extensive Silk Roads network, stretching from Chang’an/Luoyang, the central capital of China in the Han and Tang dynasties, to the Zhetysu region of Central ...

At its heart a celebrated UNESCO world heritage site, Uzbekistan's ancient Silk Road stop is a fascinating mix of history and ...