Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

The Greek colonies of Central Asia that had been left behind after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great had, by the 1st century BCE, largely converted from Greco-Roman paganism to ...

The region that is now Afghanistan seems to have been mainly Buddhist on the eve of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century CE. Much of the Silk Road economy was in the hands of Buddhist traders and ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... encompassing the spread of Christianity ...

Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Silk Road in 147 AD and 401 AD respectively, to translate Buddhist books and enroll thousands of disciples.

And of course God: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam each coursed along the Silk Road. So did revolutionary innovations such as algebra. So did the bubonic plague. (Scholars think the Black Death ...

Write an overview of those interactions and their greater significance throughout Indian history, referencing the Silk Road, Buddhism, Gupta Empire, Cholan Empire, astronomy, mathematics ...

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

From there, the technique was brought into China, Japan, and South East Asia together with Buddhism via the networks of commercial routes that came to be known of the Silk Road. When Silk Road ...

Indian architecture has had a profound influence on Chinese architecture, thanks to centuries of cultural and spiritual ...

bypasses India," said Dalrymple, challenging the conventional understanding of the Silk Road and emphasizing ... The book also explores how Buddhism, Hinduism, and mathematics were instrumental ...

A journey from Xi'an, the birthplace of the Silk Road in China, to Lanzhou in the country's north-west, discovering the legacy of goods like tea and silk, the impact of imported ideas like ...