🛣️ Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
Site of Weiyang Palace in Chang'an City of the Western Han Dynasty
📋 Fast Facts
- UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising 33 sites across China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
- Spans over 5,000 kilometers from Chang'an (Xi'an) to Central Asia
- Active from 2nd century BCE to 16th century CE
- Weiyang Palace covered 4.8 square kilometers and served as Western Han imperial center (206 BCE–9 CE)
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor is a UNESCO-inscribed network of trade and cultural routes that connected East and West across Asia for over 1,500 years. The designation encompasses 33 archaeological sites distributed across three countries, with the Weiyang Palace site in Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an) representing the eastern terminus of this vast interchange network. Rather than a single road, the corridor constituted a complex web of routes traversing ...