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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the Silk Road-influenced advances on display here: * An elaborate, underground irrigation system, still in use today, located outside Turfan, China, which allowed for lush farmland in the ...

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate ... to the oasis trading post of Turfan before arriving at Kashgar ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate ... to the oasis trading post of Turfan before arriving at Kashgar ...