The same region that has been beset by various claims by Western interests in recent times. This is the context I am faced ...

Braving the blistering sun and sandblasting winds, Chinese traders began arriving in the city of Bukhara during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Some stayed, while others carried on along the Silk ...

Exploration of Translation Skills for Ceramic Culture under Skopos Theory. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-7. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1113628 . Against the backdrop of the deepened advancement of the ...

Is there any more evocative term in travel than “Silk Road”? Reaching back through history to the second century BC and China’s Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), rulers created it as a route ...

Quite likely, the Silk Road. The analysis found the oldest domestic cat dated to the Tang Dynasty, when trade was at its peak. Price Database. ... Western Han dynasty, China (206 B.C.E.-8 C.E.).

A map (left) of the Silk Road during the Western Han Dynasty. Another map (right) showing the location of the newfound burial (red triangle). The black triangles are cinnabar mines.

Initiated by the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian, who went in search of “heavenly horses” for the Han dynasty, the Silk Road eventually connected people living thousands of miles apart, ...