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📺 Series

The Silk Road

La Route de la soie et autres merveilles
📅 2017 ⭐ 8.0 🕐 30 min FR FR

Alfred de Montesquiou, a war correspondent for the Associated Press news agency and a journalist for Paris Match – for which he has covered most of the Arab Spring revolutions – will be our knowledge broker along the Silk Road, the mythical network of trade routes that for centuries linked the Far East to the West. Follow in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors, from Alexander the Great to Marco Polo. Journey through time, encountering specialists, historians, or just everyday people with a passion who will help you grasp the past and present identities of those countries. From Bursa in Turkey to Xi’an in China, Alfred guides and accompanies you in this fresh and original way to discover History.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 15 episodes
E1
Italy: Venice 2017-01-10
E2
Turkey: Bosphorus 2017-01-17
E3
Turkey: Anatolia, The Caravans of Asia Minor 2017-01-24
E4
Iran: Tabriz, Capital of Merchants 2017-01-31
E5
Iran: Assassins, Emperors and Ma 2017-02-07
E6
Iran: Kashan and the Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd 2017-02-14
E7
Uzbekistan: Bukhara 2017-02-21
E8
Uzbekistan: Samarkand 2017-02-28
E9
Uzbekistan: Tachkent 2017-03-07
E10
Kyrgystan 2017-03-14
E11
China: Kashgar 2017-03-21
E12
China: Gobi 2017-03-28
E13
China: Dunhuang 2017-04-04
E14
China: Lanzhou 2017-04-11
E15
China: Xian 2017-04-18
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