Detail of a Catalan nautical map representing the Asia of the 13th century with a caravan on the way to Cathay : the silk road crossed by Marco Polo....
The Catalan Atlas is the most important Catalan map of the medieval period. It was produced by the Majorcan cartographic school and is attributed to...
transporting merchandise with camels on the great silk road in the middle ages 16th century - 絲綢之路 幅插畫檔、美工圖案、卡通及圖標
Caravan on the Silk Road. Detail from the Catalan Atlas. Found in the Collection of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
An infographic titled "Belt and Road Initiative: The keystone in China's rising power strategy" created in Ankara, Turkiye on October 23, 2023....
on the road between song kul lake and koshkor village, tien shan mountains, kyrgyzstan, central asia - 絲綢之路 個照片及圖片檔
The term Turkestan is of Persian origin; also spelt Turkistan, it literally means 'Land of the Turks'. Today the term is used to describe a region...
Siyah Kalem or 'Black Pen' is the name given to the 15th century school of painting attributed to Mehmed Siyah Kalem. Nothing is known of his life,...
Traders with camels crossing through the Silk Road which linked China to Europe, allowing the entry of Silk and other commodities c1850
Chinese scroll painting from 1280 by Liu Kuan-tao showing a camel caravan carrying carpets in the background with the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan...
The Tea Horse Road was a network of mule caravan paths winding through the mountains of Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet in Southwest China. It is also...
Zhangye is an important light industrial and agricultural centre at the heart of the Hexi Corridor with a population of about 200,000. It was...
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang , also commonly known as Emperor Ming of Tang , personal name Li Longji, known as Wu Longji, was the seventh emperor of the...
The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes , also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves, form a system of 492 temples 25 km southeast...
Low-angle view of a caravan of camels, silhouetted against the sun, on the Silk Road in the Tarafan Depression, Xinjiang province, China, April 1980.
'Street scene, Yarkand', c1890. Central Asian peoples in the Chinese town of Shache, also known as Yarkand. Illustration from The Universal Geography...
Cathay and the Great Khan as represented in the Catalan Atlas, by the Jewish illustrator Cresques Abraham, 1375.
majestic registan square at dawn in samarkand, uzbekistan with "ulugh beg" madrasah (1417–1420) on the left, the "tilya-kori" madrasah in the center (1646–1660) and the "sher-dor" madrasah on the right, a unesco heritage site - 絲綢之路 個照片及圖片檔
majestic "poi kalan" complex in central bukhara with "mir-i-arab" madrassah, "kalan mosque" ("masjid-i kalan") blue dome and massive "kalan minaret" ("kalyan") in the center in bukhara, uzbekistan - 絲綢之路 個照片及圖片檔
Siyah Kalem or 'Black Pen' is the name given to the 15th century school of painting attributed to Mehmed Siyah Kalem. Nothing is known of his life,...
