For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient ... Silk Road flourished during the Tang Dynasty and products like precious gems, exquisite clothing ...

It verifies historical records of silk being utilized in ancient China for sacrificial temple clothing and rituals. Previous radiocarbon dating of the Sanxingdui site found that it was 3,148 to ...

a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China’s Shaanxi province. The research laid the ...

They also go on to explain that the majority of the early accounts of Chinese sericulture ... supported by ancient texts which reveal that silk was typically used for burial clothing in order ...