Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

The Beiting Ancient City site a key hub along the ancient Silk Road in today's Xinjiang Uygur ... along with a smaller collection of stone tools and copper coins. "Excavations at the Beiting ...

we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost civilisations. Samarkand’s Silk Road past is ...

The Silk Road and the Indian Ocean trade routes were arteries of a cultural exchange that spanned thousands of miles, making ...