The city, now the country’s capital, was long a stopping place for camel caravans plying the Silk Road. And where is the Qizilqum? Stretching from parts of Kazakhstan to southern Uzbekistan ...

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ikram could lead a camel caravan himself and maybe even fend off some Silk Road bandits while he’s ...

The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue Brunning, Yu-Ping Luk and Elisabeth O’Connell note, may conjure up images of camel caravans crossing desert dunes, and of merchants trading silks ...

Conjuring up images of merchants on camel-led caravans, pilgrims braving bandits ... the mere mention of the Silk Road to any medieval adventurer would have them wide-eyed with wonder.