“What we now call the Silk Road,” he writes, “should more accurately be called the Horse Road ... route that linked Europe—by arduous caravan expeditions and flights of the imagination ...

It was also known as the Silk Road. Travelers used camel or horse caravans and stayed in guest houses or inns spaced one day’s travel apart. Travelers along the Silk Route’s maritime routes ...

Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans ... people weren’t the barbarian horse-riding hordes that history has ...

The Ancient Tea Horse Road was a major trade route connecting Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet regions in China. From the 6th to the 20th century , this route facilitated tea exchange from Sichuan and ...

The name ‘Silk Road’ evokes images of Marco Polo and endless camel caravans stretching from Beijing ... or take one to two days hiking and horse-trekking there from Kyzart, 45 miles west ...

And in the Fergana Valley of modern-day Uzbekistan, he found a product that was particularly worth wanting: a strange variety of “heavenly horse ... caravans. Braving the bleakest terrains and ...