Artistic motifs• The treasure from Hejia village (found near Chang'an) includes vases with Sassanid-style bases, a small bowl with lions, birds carrying ribbons and pearls (Iranian motifs), a silver cup with a shape resembling a Sogdian vase and Western faces, a cup in the shape of eight lobes, a pearl rim, and alternating mounted hunters (Sassanians) and Chinese women with tools. Some of these vessels are believed to be foreign-made, while others are believed to have been made in China, under the influence of foreign craftsmen. 1• Western-looking faces and the Roman artistic motif of cherubs along wavy garlands have been discovered in the Buddhist stupas of Miran, dating back to before the 5th century.2• Silk with Chinese characters woven into the fabric has been found in Palmyra, Syria , dating from 100-300 AD, are among the earliest Chinese works of art found in Western Asia.3• The Afrasaib murals, found in Samarkand, depict both Chinese and Zoroastrian scenes.4• Around the 6th century they begin pottery using Buddhist lotus flowers appears in northern China. 5• Around the end of the 8th century, stoneware and porcelain were imported from China to Baghdad. Imitations of the T'ang dynasty style have been discovered, created by Muslim artists dating back to around the 9th century. Other pottery in a more clearly Muslim style has been discovered dating back beyond the 9th century.6Religion• A collection of a variety of documents preserved in a cave in Dunhuang, western China, includes writings on Judaism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism .7• Refugees who moved from the Gandhara region (now Afghanistan and Pakistan) were the first Buddhists in the western regions of China, particularly in the city of Niya.8• Tombs built...... paper center ... ...937, Eumorfopoulos Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.11. H. Klimkeit, R. Meserve, E. Karimov, C. Shackle, “Religions and Religious Movements”, UNESCO History of Central Asian Civilizations 4, no. 2 (2000): 72.12. Ibid., 74.13. Ibid., 80.14. Silkroad Foundation, Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road, http://www.silk-road.com/artl/buddhism.shtml (accessed April 6, 2014).15. Hansen, The Silk Road, 240.16. Duhuang International Project, Dunhuang International Project Statistics, http://idp.bl.uk/pages/about_stats.a4d (accessed 4 April 2014).17. Hansen, The Silk Road, 26.18. Ibid., 221.19. Ibid., 56.20. Stephen Wuem, “The Silk Road and Hybrid Languages ​​in Northwest China,” Diogenes 43, no. 171 (1995): 57.21. Stephen Wuem, “The Silk Road and Hybrid Languages ​​in Northwest China,” Diogenes 43, n. 171 (1995): 56, 58-60