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.
Mes Aynak is the missing link that shows Afghanistan's interconnectivity throughout Asia on the Silk Road.
Few cities in Asia so represented the great cultural currents that crossed and re-crossed the continent along the Silk Road.
Western traders brought these counting boards east on the Silk Road to China.
Jewish history in China dates to at least the 8th century, when West Asian traders roamed the Silk Road.
Buddhism had flowed along the Silk Road and taken root in China.
The Dragon Mart is also evidence of the rebirth of one of the world's oldest trading routes, the silk road.
Foreign archaeologists and explorers travelling along the Silk Road would visit the site and walk away with groups of manuscripts.
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.
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.
Lo has traveled along the Silk Road and seen regional variations of the knots in Syria, Greece, Lebanon, Tibet, Turkey and as far west as Ireland.
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?
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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'Silk Road' is a relatively recent designation dating from the mid-nineteenth century when the German geologist, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, named the trade and communication network Die Seidenstrasse (the Silk Road).
It is also where the Silk Road ended in the East and is home to the famed army of terracotta soldiers that belonged to the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang.
Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.
In the framework of the 6th edition of the Escale the town of Lacanau (Gironde), visitors are invited to follow the Silk Road as far as the Chinese border in the footsteps of the great travellers of the past.
From inside the first ever mosque to be built in Turkey I peered down at the river that separates the country from Armenia, and at the ruined bridge which once carried travellers on the Silk Road on their way West.
This meeting is organized within the framework of the UNESCO Office in Uzbekistan programm on preservation of tangible cultural heritage, Coordinating Committee to support the documentation standards and procedures for the serial and transnational World Heritage nomination of the Silk Road in Central Asia.
The manuscripts are written in many languages from the Oriental peoples, such as Uzbek, Arabic, Persian, Tajik, Urdu, Pashtu, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur and then translated in different at different periods, showing us the interrelations of the people, enhanced by the Silk Road.
Visitors will discover the cultures of faraway peoples through numerous events and activities including photo exhibitions posters, a screening of the Mongolian film "L'histoire du chameau qui pleure" (The Camel Who Cried) and a documentary on the Silk Road by Elise Blanchard, lectures, creative workshops, cooking and sporting activities.
Travel the legendary Silk Road formed by the forays of Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, and Tamburlaine.
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