Few images are more enduring in the historical imagination than a train of two-humped Bactrian camels plodding across desert sands from west to east, or vice versa, across the vast open spaces of Eurasia. Now that China is edging towards a modern incarnation of the ‘Silk Road’, it is worth remembering how this emblem of the ancient world actually came into being.
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