The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese ... are the castles in Turpan's Gaochang and Jiaohe. An imperial palace, temples and some other high building can still be found here.

Other notable attractions include the tomb of the Silk Road’s pioneer Zhang Qian himself and the Bin County Cave Temple – a wondrously ornate Buddhist temple in the middle of the Chinese ...

The Silk Road was a network of land and sea-based trade ... from both the government and commoners who built monasteries and temples. Around that time, Buddhist teachers from Central Asia also ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

As her journey to China's Gansu Province concludes, Xinhua reporter Maria Alekseeva remains captivated by the 1,600-year-old ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important stops on the Silk Road, bears the scars of ... "They [ISIS] placed explosives at the temple here and detonated them." ...