Special Events The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation: The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that extended across Asia, linking powerful civilizations such as Rome and China. Although it still evokes fantasies of lush desert oases and distant crossroad settlements teeming with multinational merchants and other travelers, the Silk Road has become in our time a metaphor for the harmonious exchange of culture among people from diverse societies, distant places, and different faiths. more...
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