Silk Road: Lanzhou to Dunhuang
March 30th 2013 The Silk Road has always fascinated me. A few years back I attended the Smithsonian's Folklife festival on the Washington Mall which featured the Silk Road cultures, mostly food, dance, and story telling, for each country along the Silk Road from Turkey to China. It was inspirational!
It is difficult to date when long distance trade between the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, India and China
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