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The "Silk Road Economic Belt" and "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" is a new initiative by the Chinese Government to bolster trade across Asia, Europe and Africa. Whereas the "Maritime Silk Road" passes from Southern China through Western Asia, the…

Silk Road countries and their trade partners. Data source: CIA Factbook

The caravan served as the principle method for transporting goods across the Silk Road. This image from "The Silk Road Atlas" depicts what the journey may have looked like.

Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea

This is the cover of a publicity pamphlet, most likely distributed to USC donors. The pamphlet entered the Harvard University Library collection on October 31st, 1942. The ~50 page document illustrated the work of the USC's medical clinic in…

In order to protect the monument in Zaporozhie from "leninopad," an activist dressed the statue in a traditional Ukranian shirt ("vyshivanka").