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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

Conjuring up images of merchants on camel-led caravans, pilgrims braving bandits ... the mere mention of the Silk Road to any medieval adventurer would have them wide-eyed with wonder.

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” ...