URUMQI, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The vibrant dances once performed along the ancient Silk Road ... topics on the ancient Silk Road, breathing new life into Turfan studies. Turpan, also known as ...

Among the treasures were fragments of over a thousand manuscripts, dating between the ninth and twelfth centuries. (Still other manuscripts come from Dunhuang, a Silk Road station east of Turfan, but ...

With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map ...

and the other going north of the Tian Shan mountains through Turfan, Talgar and Almaty (in what is now southeast Kazakhstan). The New Silk Road railway route The last available link on the Silk ...

Seminar for Silk Road Curators, Annual Meeting of Chinese Association of Dunhuang and Turfan Studies, and several exhibitions such as Textile Archaeology in 100 Years, and Silk Road on Silk ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...

In the Turfan Marketplace ... Near the exhibition’s end is an electronic tabletop map of the entire Silk Road, with two dozen buttons that prompt computer-generated overlays of trade routes ...

Turfan was a lush oasis offering refuge from ... piece in the entire exhibit is an illuminated interactive map of the Silk Road, where you can investigate, by means of a touch screen, different ...

Turfan, Samarkand and Baghdad. Using life-size recreations and ancient artifacts. Like most people, about the only thing I knew about the Silk Road going in was that Marco Polo, the Italian ...

If nothing else this book, Traveling the Silk Road - Ancient Pathway to the Modern ... silk and 'reweave them into new garments'. In Turfan, there's the extraordinary karez water system that ...