the monk who had left his home in eastern China in A.D. 629 and followed the Silk Road west across the Taklamakan Desert, arriving in Bamiyan several years later. Xuanzang was welcomed into a ...

The Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and ...

This photo taken on April 12, 2025 shows a grassland in Baicheng county, Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] The Taklimakan Desert in Northwest ...

An aerial drone photo taken on April 7, 2025 shows oleaster saplings in Hotan County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest ...

Vietnam is stepping up inspections of particular children’s toys over concerns that imagery on the model’s face resembles a map China uses to stake competing territorial claims in the South ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once ... interdisciplinary team that documented an ancient water-sculpted landscape in the Empty Quarter, one of the largest and driest deserts in ...

BEIJING derided the American tech giant Google for naming a portion of South China Sea as “West Philippine ... its mapping service platforms Google Maps and Google Earth. A Google spokesperson ...

Such ancient artifacts, including those recently found at the pyramid site, have survived in the region for millennia due to the desert’s dryness—ideal for preserving organic materials that ...