The road grew and prospered with the rise of the Roman Empire -- and much, much later, established a new outpost in Victoria. But this time the hot commodity was not silk, but quality tea and spa ...

The two millennia old Silk Road spans over 5,000 miles, and served as a trade route between China and the Mediterranean. It paved the way to cultural exchange and today's interconnected world.

The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

Raoul McLaughlin also delves deeply into Rome's trade ventures through the Tarim territories, which led its merchants to the Han Empire of ancient China. Having established a system of Central Asian ...

Christopher Wilton-Steer A version of this article appears in print on July 27, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Up Close / ‘The Silk Road,’ by Christopher Wilton-Steer.