Over two millennia ago, the Chinese were already selling silks along the maritime Silk Road and the continental Silk Road, which also provided major channels for East-West exchanges in arts ...

The Silk Road wasn’t a camel rut worn in the steppe ... The Central Asian polymath Al-Biruni wrote more than a hundred books, among them a detailed anthropology of India and a study titled ...

Inida's famous monk also came to central China's Henan through Pakistan and Afghanistan, Silk Road in 147 AD and 401 AD respectively, to translate Buddhist books and enroll thousands of disciples.