The Silk Road transported all sorts of items, including salt, spices, precious stones, precious metals, paper and porcelain. But the system was originally built on the transmission of finished silk ...

Scarce commodities, such as salt or spices, that were only available in ... developed an Amber Road linking the Baltic states with the rest of Europe. Large deposits of amber are found under ...

Welcome to Spice World, in which Gut Check looks at ... Aleppo was famed for being one of the last stops on the Silk Road, the main trade artery that connected Asia with Europe and Northern ...

From about 200 BCE to 1500 CE, eastern and western traders traveled along the Silk Road, a network of trade ... In the first century CE, India's spices—especially black pepper and malabathrum ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we explore Uzbekistan’s culinary heritage, from Tashkent’s food markets and plov centre to a mountain village famous for its seasonal samsa. Uzbekistan ...