Articles, tagged with "silk road", page 1

China is renowned for its "Silk Road,” which brought Chinese silk and embroidery to Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe, and Africa. The silk trade between China, India, Greece, and Rome acted as a link between these four ancient civilizations and promoted...

One of the most unusual examples of a wall covering discovered was the Sampul Tapestry wall covering (also called the Urumqi Warrier and the Cherchan Man) Sampul is on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in western China just above Tibet. It is ...

"The China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline was the result of painstaking efforts by workers of our four countries," said Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday at a ceremony marking the inauguration of the pipeline linking Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazak...