The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith
Lost in the sands of the Taklamakan desert in western China, there are few places as remote or desolate today as Dandan-Uiliq, Niya or Miran. Lacking strategic or economic importance, their names are known to very few. No roads lead to them and the nearest railway stations and airports are hundreds of miles away. Yet over a thousand years ago they were cosmopolitan and bustling staging posts on a series of great trade routes which led over 5,000 miles from the shores of the Mediterranean to the heartland of China: the Silk Road.
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