The find marks the longest urban thoroughfare ever discovered at Yinxu and is the longest known preserved road of ancient China ... of considerable activity and transportation methods used ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

It wasn’t until the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) that significant transportation improvements ... the first exhibition to prominently feature ancient Chinese picnic sets,” Chiang says.