a land of deserts and mountains at the heart of the Silk Road, steered clear of the Taklamakan. Besides the unforgiving terrain, voyagers feared what were said to be desert spirits, who it was ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

These peaks form the northern border of China's vast Taklamakan Desert and are part of a chain of mountain ranges that have long hosted prehistoric Silk Road routes connecting China with lands to ...

the Silk Road (see China, forked north and south of the Taklamakan Desert, and traversed a vast stretch of central and western Asia on its way to the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Along those ...

Desert Highway Number One cuts through the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, an arid basin the same size as France whose name literally means: You can enter, but never exit. For centuries ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road ... of the Silk Road began in the Chinese capital of Chang'an (Xian), diverged into northern and southern ...

For the past 28 years, a Chinese artist couple has traveled the silk road ... along the Silk Road. They departed from Dunhuang, across the renowned Lop-Nor dry basin and the Taklamakan desert ...

The history of the Silk Road, a vast network of ancient ... Tien Shan range using the mountain paths that avoided the Taklamakan Desert. “Those mountains have been seen as peripheral, merely ...

Members of the desert investigation team of the fourth national census of cultural relics hike in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region (ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY) The Taklamakan ...

The city of Dunhuang, in north-west China, is situated at a point of vital strategic and logistical importance, on a crossroads of two major trade routes within the Silk Road network. Lying in an ...