(Still other manuscripts come from Dunhuang, a Silk Road station east of Turfan, but I will concentrate here on this latter collection.) Some of the Turfan texts were written in Syriac, the church's ...

"Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World," an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York plunges visitors into the world of caravans, artisans and merchants ...

Contains 71 papers from the conference "Turfan Revisited : the First Century of Research into the Arts and Cultures of the Silk Road" held from the 8th to the 13th of September 2002 at the Museum for ...

Norell chose four cities — Xi’An, Turfan, Samarkand and Baghdad — to tell the story of the Silk Road, with displays, models and artifacts representing each city and culture.

The Silk Road itself was actually a number of different trade routes that, combined, ... Turfan and Kucha, hoping to avoid predation by bandits and punishing sandstorms. Eventually, the goods would ...

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns ...

Travel; Exploring the Silk Road, and its lessons for today, at COSI in Columbus (photos) Published: ; Mar. 14, 2018, 5:28 p.m.

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns.

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns ...

To enhance your trip, visit on Sunday afternoons, when members of the Silk Road Ensemble, the musical group spearheaded by Yo-Yo Ma, will play concerts at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30pm. —Julia Israel.