Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today's town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...

Old Remains of 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' Reveal Rare Belief That Souls Resided in Teeth The Silk Road, a huge network ...

The find was made in the Shengjindian cemetery, a key region along the ancient Silk Road, where archaeologists began excavations in 2007. The woman, estimated to have been between 20 and 25 years old ...

It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial ... near a Chinese town called Turpan, paid 40 bolts of raw silk for an 11-year-old slave girl. To the southeast, a thousand years before ...

Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built forth kilometers from today’s town of Turpan. Jiaohe then was ...

a time when Turpan was a major center of the Silk Road. Experts have suggested she may have been at the heart of shamanic practices that illustrate the beliefs of her time, according to SciencePost.