The Silk Road
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.
First Air Date: Jan 10, 2017
Last Air date: Apr 18, 2017
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 15 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 1.8959
Language: Arabic, Mandarin, French, Italian, Kazakh, Persian, Russian, Turkish
Season
Season 1
Episode
Italy: Venice
Turkey: Bosphorus
Turkey: Anatolia, The Caravans of Asia Minor
Iran: Tabriz, Capital of Merchants
Iran: Assassins, Emperors and Ma
Iran: Kashan and the Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd
Uzbekistan: Bukhara
Uzbekistan: Samarkand
Uzbekistan: Tachkent
Kyrgystan
China: Kashgar
China: Gobi
China: Dunhuang
China: Lanzhou
China: Xian