In the 19th century, when the name of Silk Road was first used by a German geographer, it just included the land road from China's Xinjiang to central Asia. Later it was expanded gradually and ...

Often seen as one of the first truly global trade routes, the Silk Road – actually ... horses of Central Asia. The road’s heyday ended around the 15th Century AD, as traders from the west ...

The "Silk Road" refers to a series of routes that crisscrossed Eurasia from the first millennium B.C.E. through the middle ... the Mediterranean in cities like Antioch and Tyre.By the 4th century ...

But this bustling bazaar is not just a space for buying and selling—here, the legacy of the Silk Road comes alive ... Kilns dating as far back as the 1st Century BCE have been unearthed by ...

Two ancient Silk Road sites in China - the Tuyugou Grottoes in Turpan, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Xuanquanzhi Ruins in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu Province - have ...

Sarianidi was an expert in the rich Bronze Age civilizations of Bactria, later occupied by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C ... Bactria was on the Silk Road that linked China with ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand ... of the Outer Chshi Kingdom. During the first century, Jiaohe came under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue ... Although German geographers first coined the term “Silk Roads” in the early-19th century to describe the trade in silk between Han-dynasty ...