Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor

Caravans, monks and envoys moved for nearly two millennia along the corridor linking Chang'an — capital of Han and Tang China — with the Zhetysu region of Central Asia. This 5,000-kilometre stretch of the Silk Roads, inscribed by UNESCO in 2014 as a joint listing of China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, gathers 33 sites: palaces and trading towns, Buddhist cave temples, beacon towers and stretches of the Great Wall, together charting how goods, beliefs and technologies passed between East and West.