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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...