Silk Road

The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes across Central Asia that linked people, ideas, goods, technology, and diseases from Rome to China during the period from c. 500 BCE to 1500 CE

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Silk Road':

  • Aleppo
  • Ancient Merv
  • Ancient Nara Influences from Silk Road areas
  • Bamiyan Valley
  • Bukhara
  • Damascus
  • Istanbul
  • Kunya-Urgench
  • Mogao Caves
  • Palmyra
  • Samarkand
  • Shakhrisyabz
  • Sulamain-Too
  • Taxila
  • Tyre