And from day one we begin bumping into the Silk Road’s new silk: hydrocarbons. The Registan is the square in the heart of the ancient Silk Road hub of Samarqand, now a World Heritage site in ...

The film then shows how north India was opened up to the world at the same time, as merchant's caravans began to use the Silk Route between China and the West. Journeying out to Merv in the ...