Ancient central China's silk products, iron ware ... Silk Road and further expanded the are to the road. Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.

Linking the two economic powerhouses were the Silk Road and its watery ... for example, came from Iran; it was not recovered from ore in China until much later. Although Arab mariners clearly ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route ... Therefore, a complete re-evaluation of when and how domestic cats came to China ...

is the single most important group of Silk Road-related luxury items still in existence. This collection reflects the arts of the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, Central Asia, China, Korea and ...

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital ... The origin of the Silk Road as we have come to know it begins in second century BCE.

China’s ascension ... such as silk and baskets and quickly progressed up the value chain. China started as many emerging economies do, exporting mainly low-tech products—such as footwear ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Khotan is now in western China, but it was then ... Obviously certain products on the Silk Road gathered a kind of mystique, particularly when they came from a long way away.

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to ... or a Dave Petraeus somehow come along who can connect the ...