“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2025 While the Silk Road is more widely recognised for connecting China to Europe, the Tea Horse Road played an equally important role in commerce for centuries. It facilitated the movement of ...