Near the end of his 16-year journey, the monk stopped in Dunhuang, a thriving Silk Road oasis where crosscurrents of people and cultures were giving rise to one of the great marvels of the ...

Instead the city evokes the slow decline of the fabulous Silk Road world, when European shipping broke the monopolies of Central Asian traders, dooming oasis stops like Khiwa to exotic backwardness.

The oasis is estimated to be 2,000 years old and was an important rest stop for travellers on the ancient Silk Road trading route. But recently it has been in danger of being swallowed up by the ...

there is a beautiful oasis, in the center of which stands the old and ancient charming city of Kashi. Kashi used to be the last stop within China’s boundary on the Silk Road leading to the ...

When Silk Road trade reached its peak between the 3rd and 8th Centuries, merchants traveled westward across China from oasis to oasis, crossing the harsh terrain of the Taklamakan Desert to reach ...