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The Silk Road: Part 1

The Silk Road: Part 1. Through the Era of the Four Empires. New Interest in the Silk Road: A Shop in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Some Major Silk Road Caravan Routes and Adjacent Sea Routes. Banditry along the Silk Road A Tang-Era Mural in the Mogao Caves. Mogao Caves, Dunhuang. The Mogao Caves.

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The Silk Road: Part 1

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  1. The Silk Road: Part 1 Through the Era of the Four Empires

  2. New Interest in the Silk Road: A Shop in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

  3. Some Major Silk Road Caravan Routes and Adjacent Sea Routes

  4. Banditry along the Silk RoadA Tang-Era Mural in the Mogao Caves

  5. Mogao Caves, Dunhuang

  6. The Mogao Caves

  7. A “carpet ceiling” at the Mogao Caves with Iranian-inspired apsarasas (flying heavenly beings)

  8. Tang Court Ladies Playing Polo

  9. Who Said Polo Was Only for Men?

  10. Music from Central Asia along the Silk Road

  11. Carrying Musical Instruments to China from Persia and India

  12. Mulberry Bushes in Anhui Province

  13. A Relic of the Buddha’s Finger

  14. The Four Empires

  15. The Gansu Horse

  16. Ruins of a Beacon Tower Near Dunhuang

  17. The Jade Pass, or Gate

  18. This is not an Ancient Sign

  19. Remains of the Great Wall of Zhao

  20. Caesar Augustus as Pontifex Maximus Artistic techniques: contraposto, drapery, idealized realism, And facial expression

  21. Kushan art showing contrapposto, drapery, and idealized realism

  22. Gandharan Buddhist Statuary

  23. How Did This Buddha Travel to China?

  24. All the Way to China: A Northern Wei Buddha (477 CE)

  25. Fragment of a Mural at Miran

  26. Compare this Romano-Coptic Funerary Effigy

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