Liu Bang established the powerful Han Dynasty in 206 B.C. During the Han ... and in the process pioneered the route known as the "Silk Road" from Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province ...

The Silk Road maintained its status for over a millennium ... so retaliated by embargoing trade with Europe. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, China was once again shut off from the outside world ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

Civilization 7 is slowly revealing more Civs in the lead-up to its February release, and the Ming Civ seems like a good pick ...

But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote ... the extensive network of ancient trade routes, such as the Silk Road, makes it plausible that traders ...

Archaeologists have officially confirmed a recent discovery to be southern China's oldest city that's more than 3,000 years ...