Jabarkan Garis waktu dari Kucha

630: Xuanzang mengunjungi kerajaan tersebut.

Transmisi Jalur Sutra pada agama Buddha

Beckwith, Christopher I. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009.

Grousset, Rene. The Empires of the Steppes a History of Central Asia. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1970.

Hulsewé, A. F. P. and M. A. N. Loewe, China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 B.C.-A.D. 23. Leiden E. J. Brill (1979) ISBN 90-04-05884-2.

Mallory, J. P. and Victor H. Mair. (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Thames & Hudson, London. ISBN 0-500-05101-1.

Younghusband, Francis E. (1896). The Heart of a Continent. John Murray, London. Facsimile reprint: (2005) Elbiron Classics. ISBN 1-4212-6551-6 (pbk); ISBN 1-4212-6550-8 (hardcover).

Silk Road Seattle - University of Washington (The Silk Road Seattle website contains many useful resources including a number of full-text historical works)