It was a rare city that belonged to both ends of the Silk Road.
Few Chinese ventured westward along the Silk Road and those that did, like Zhang, had very different motives.
It was possible for the trade routes like the Silk Road to hum with traffic.
One member of the Silk Road bike tour was 32-year-old Washington state native Candace Criscione.
To ensure the continuation of Silk Road Online Platform, additional funding is being sought.
Mes Aynak is the missing link that shows Afghanistan's interconnectivity throughout Asia on the Silk Road.
Travel the legendary Silk Road formed by the forays of Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, and Tamburlaine.
Few cities in Asia so represented the great cultural currents that crossed and re-crossed the continent along the Silk Road.
Silk Road takes its name from the historic trade routes spanning across Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
But one cannot doubt whether the world's second largest economy is instrumental in rebuilding the ancient Silk Road.
Trade between West and East moved through Central Asia along the famed Silk Road, bringing development and prosperity.
Western traders brought these counting boards east on the Silk Road to China.
In "The New Silk Road" we note one of its promising pistons.
Jewish history in China dates to at least the 8th century, when West Asian traders roamed the Silk Road.
The Dragon Mart is also evidence of the rebirth of one of the world's oldest trading routes, the silk road.
The company recently incorporated in the United States and speaks of a "digital silk road" spreading K-pop to the world.
Foreign archaeologists and explorers travelling along the Silk Road would visit the site and walk away with groups of manuscripts.
Central Asia has been a geostrategic crossroads of people, capital and ideas since the first Han dynasty caravans traveled the ancient Silk Road.
He began his collection, now housed in the Karakalpak Museum of Art in Nukus, near the ancient Silk Road, in the late 1960s.
So Zhang, an ardent Buddhist, had set off along what we know as the Silk Road, to purchase original texts to bring them home for careful translation.
He was a religious genius who grew up on the Silk Road in ancient Palestine, on that magical trade route connecting East and West.
Also known as the Marine Silk Road Museum, this institution contains a sunken ship more than 800 years old in an aquarium like setting.
It was already one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, well known to both East and West, and a great way station of the Silk Road.
His Chinese equivalent, the indomitable Xuan Zhang, who arrived here from the other end of the Silk Road in the 7th Century, mourned the destruction wrought by the White Huns.
Can one imagine that those manuscripts have been transported in the same carriages as the goods on the Silk Road from the far end of Asia to Europe?
We are also focused on the region, on the new Silk Road, on the integration of Afghanistan into the economies of its neighbors in Central Asia, India and beyond.
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Regional and local communities from more than 55 countries will be involved in this collective endeavour by sharing and promoting their Silk Road archives, publications, photographs and audio-visual documents.
Tadashi Shoji took his guests on journey to the Silk Road, opening his show with a dress that borrowed its color and ornamentation from blue and white Ming dynasty vases.
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The conversion is rejuvenating China's ancient Silk Road to the west, immortalised by Marco Polo in the 14th century but rarely used since sea routes made the camel trains redundant.
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