Important periods for the Silk Road were the Chinese Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-C.E. 220), the Chinese Tang dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols, who ...

Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade ... along the Silk Road and beyond. "We could really change the map of urban development in medieval ...

Journey through the ancient city of Samarkand where culinary rituals and timeless tales of the Silk Road converge—from ...

A map of the Silk Road. Encyclopædia Britannica Merriam-Webster ... what is now known as Central Asia, and the Roman Empire.

This Chinese invention so entranced Roman elites that they nearly bankrupted their empire to buy it. Some things never change. There is little truly “old” about the old Silk Road. Today Muslim ...