Join photographer and travel expert Dorothy Dare in an exploration of The Silk Road.
It wasn’t just silk, and there actually wasn’t a road, but these enterprising adventurers with their camels transported valuable jewels, spices, and, yes, silks. They traversed miles of the 4,000-mile route between China and the Mediterranean across desert and dangerous terrain.
From the 5th Century BC until the mid-15th Century, the Silk Road played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.
Learn what happened when sailing ships transformed trade, leaving behind treasures we can see today in the prominent trading centers of cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva.
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Photo by Dorothy Dare: Samarkand, one of the oldest cities in the world and star of the Silk Road trade.
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