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

The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation ...

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.

Was there a lingua franca on the Silk Road? During the ancient period the main lingua franca was Soghdian, an Iranian language which survives today in the Yaghnob valley of Tajikistan. In Islamic ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

There have been many “empires of the sword” but very few “empires of the spirit,” and India was one of them, said historian ...

In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.

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 ...