Artistic motifs• The Hejia village treasure (found near Chang'an) includes vessels with Sasanian-style bases, a small bowl with lions , birds wearing ribbons and pearls (Iranian motifs), a silver cup whose shape evokes a Sogdian vessel and Western faces, a cup with eight lobes, a border of pearls, and an alternation of hunters on horseback (Sasanian ) and Chinese women with instruments. Some of these ships are said to be foreign made, while others were made in China, under the influence of foreign craftsmen. 1• Western-looking faces and the Roman artistic motif of cherubim alongside undulating crowns have been discovered in Buddhist stupas at Miran, dating before the 5th century.2• Silk with Chinese characters woven into the fabric has been found in Palmyra, Syria, dating from before the 5th century. from 100 to 300 CE, some of the earliest Chinese art discovered in Western Asia.3• The Afrasaib wall paintings, found in Samarkand, depict Chinese and Zoroastrian scenes.4• Around the 6th century, pottery using Buddhist lotuses began to appear in northern China. 5• Towards the end of the 8th century, stoneware and porcelain were imported from China to Baghdad. Imitations of the T'ang dynasty style, created by Muslim artists, were discovered around the 9th century. Other pottery has been discovered in a more clearly Muslim style dating from after the 9th century.6Religion• A collection of various documents housed in a cave in Dunhuang, western China, includes writings on Judaism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism.7• Refugees from the Gandhara region (present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan) were the first Buddhists in the western regions of China, more precisely in the city of Niya.8• Tombs built...... middle of paper ... ...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 April 4, 2014).17. Hansen, The Silk Road, 26.18. Ibid., 221.19. Ibid., 56.20. Stephen Wuem, “The Silk Road and Hybridized Languages ​​in Northwest China,” Diogenes 43, no. 171 (1995): 57.21. Stephen Wuem, “The Silk Road and Hybridized Languages ​​in Northwest China,” Diogenes 43, no. 171 (1995): 56, 58-60