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Close ✕The road that carried more than silk
Cities strung between two empires — what moved along them besides trade?
- 1 Chang'an · 126 BCE
- 2 Dunhuang · 308
- 3 Mogao Caves · 366
- 4 Constantinople · 550
- 5 Turfan oasis · 640
- 6 Bukhara · 705
- 6 Samarkand · 705
- 7 Merv · 1221
- 8 Xi'an · 2014
Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.
Read the story behind this pattern ↗Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates