Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

Archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old Shang city in Southern China, making it the ... departure point of the Silk Road. At the top of the famous trade route, the ancient site boasts an ...

China’s beloved drunken poet died centuries ago—or did he? Discover Jiangsu: ancient gateway to the Maritime Silk Road Discover Jiangsu: ancient gateway to the Maritime Silk Road Rediscovering ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

The jade king could not make silk, because the emperor had kept the ... thousand years ago and monopolised it for so long - ancient China. Long before the Roman Empire appeared, silk was already ...

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid the ...

The Silk Road, spanning over 4,000 miles and connecting the East and West, was one of history’s most important ... and security, making it a more cost-effective way to trade.

Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

grapes went from the western reaches of the Silk Road to China. These examples and dozens more that could be mentioned make the point clear: ideas, inventions, devices and techniques spread readily ...