“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 Silk Road was a complicated complex representing in some cases actual pathways the caravans could traverse, but also general exchange between East Asia and Europe. If you ask me, as an ...

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 ...