Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan: an infamous desert the size of ...

Missionaries of many faiths accompanied caravans on the Silk Road, consciously trying to expand the reach of their own religious persuasion and make converts to their faith. The dynamics of the spread ...

There, they would trade local foodstuffs and fresh caravan animals with the traveling merchants. Despite the difficulties that faced the merchants on the Silk Roads ... What are possible road blocks, ...

Along the legendary Silk Road, certain towns preserve atmospheres that transport visitors back to the age of caravans and merchant princes. These living museums maintain traditions established ...

The land beneath their feet was the same earth they’d known for decades—unchanging, steady, eternal. The air brushed past ...

‘He took care of the caravans travelling the Silk Road,’ our Uzbek Jules Verne tour guide Marat tells us. ‘Traders travelled ...

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But as new sea routes opened and faster ships were built, land caravans slipped into obsolescence. China, moreover, lost control over large portions of the Silk Road, and Islam had started its ...