The Silk Road was one of the roads most legendary in the history of mankind. The term coined by Ferdinand von Richtofen in 1877, Thomas O. Hollmann was the one who placed the entire region into nine zones: the valley of the Wei, the corridor Hexe, the Gobi, the Makler Takla, the mountains of the Pamir Knot, turiana depression, the Iranian plateau, Mesopotamia and the Syrian desert. (more…)