like China today, mass-produced trade goods and exported them by sea. Working in shifts until the monsoon stopped them, a team of divers retrieved the ancient artifacts. The treasure—much of it ...

Dancing across them were inky dongba characters, an ancient Naxi script predating written Chinese and one of the ... and costume rental shops run a brisk trade of fur-trimmed chuba robes and ...

These countries and regions in turn also sent diplomatic missions to China, which brought a busy trade to Xinjiang. Ancient central China's silk products, iron ware, gold and platinum, bronze ...

Through nomadic people and foreign merchants along the Silk Road, a network of trade routes ran through ... exhibition to prominently feature ancient Chinese picnic sets,” Chiang says.

Many archaeological discoveries have shown that Xinjiang bore the imprint of Chinese civilization from its earliest days, with ancient trade routes between the Western Regions and the Central ...

JERUSALEM, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 1,200-year-old clay jug adorned with camel decorations in an underground cave in southern Israel's Yatir Forest, the Israel ...