But this small shard of porcelain, dating from the Ming Dynasty (1520–1570), rewrote ... the extensive network of ancient trade routes, such as the Silk Road, makes it plausible that traders ...

For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A.D. 629 ... finally shutting itself off from the world during the Ming dynasty in the 14th century. "Unlike Indian Buddhists, the Chinese ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road ... 1,500 years from the Han Dynasty, when the government began to station garrisons there, until the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 ...

The discovery is the earliest found so far in southern China, dating a whopping 3,000 years to the early Shang dynasty ...

Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction, spreading westward into the Gobi desert to guard the Silk Road ... it largely dates from the Ming dynasty from the 14th to the ...

Including ruins revealing the artistry of ancient Chinese porcelain and cultural exchanges along the Silk Road, a total of 30 ...

Once the capital of some of China’s most influential dynasties, Xi’an is a city dripping in history. As one of China’s Four Great Ancient Capitals and the starting point of the Silk Road, this place ...

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...