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 ...

A thousand and one other products swayed on camelback along the Silk Road’s sprawling distribution system. Chinese gunpowder. Venetian glass. Samarqand paper ... U.S. Army during World War ...

A Tang Dynasty tomb unearthed in northwest China has shed new light on the lives and heritage of the Sogdians, ancient traders who played a vital role in connecting cultures along the Silk Road. The ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

Was there a lingua franca on the Silk Road? During the ancient period the main lingua franca ... Conversely, such technologies as paper production and gunpowder were transmitted later from China to ...