The Silk Road network is generally thought of as stretching from an eastern terminus at the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an (now Xi’an) to westward end-points at Byzantium (Constantinople), ...

review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map the following cities: Chang' An (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan (or Turpan), Kashgar, the Ferghana ...

Damascus, SANA- Syria and China signed on Wednesday a memo of understanding within framework of the initiative of “Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road” at the ...

Between 1516 and 1918 Damascus and Aleppo were separate administrative ... Aleppo was an important waystation on the Silk Road, which connected the Far East with the Middle East and Europe ...

the brief conjured thoughts of Fattal’s that had been resurfacing about the Arabic trade of the Silk Road, and her own time living in the Middle East. Fattal was born and raised in Damascus ...