With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map ...

Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 ... and ended on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in cities like ...

The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan: an infamous desert the size of ...