Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian ... as well as fine silk and cotton products, various coins, painted pottery sculpture and food were also found in ...

The Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade routes were arteries of a cultural exchange that spanned thousands of miles, making India a key player in the ancient world’s intellectual and cultural ...

Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key trading ...

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between people from China to Venice between the second century BC and ...

The 1938 excavation of the tomb of Zhang Qian, a pioneering envoy who helped establish the ancient Silk Road across Central Asia, launched the study of archaeology at Northwest University in China ...