Important periods for the Silk Road were the Chinese Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-C.E. 220), the Chinese Tang dynasty (C.E. 618-907), and the Mongol Khanate (13th and 14th centuries). The Mongols, who ...

Over 1,400 years ago, they found their way onto the legendary Silk Road by padding alongside merchants ... value and spread them throughout their empire. Persian traders helped spread cats ...

and the Roman Empire. However, the reverse may be true: steamed dumplings may have been brought by Turkic and Mongol peoples ...

On the Golden Eagle train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...