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The Silk Road

Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

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  • Handmade on the Silk Road

  • Which mysterious ancient Chinese invention is being made here?

    Duration: 1:36
  • In the age of the Silk Road, caravans not juggernauts carried goods — Episode 3

    Duration: 2:25
  • Door knockers on The Silk Road — Episode 3

    Duration: 0:34
  • What ancient object of desire takes eight people, working on it every day, a year to complete? — Episode 3

    Duration: 1:21
  • The disused Soviet bus stop: a memory of the ambitions of Tajikistan's former Soviet rulers — Episode 2

    Duration: 1:05
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  • In photos: The Silk Road Diary

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