For all of recorded history, people in different countries have traded necessary and desirable goods and ideas with near and distant neighbors. A trade route between Rome and many nations in the Far East developed in the first century AD. Silk from the East was one of many products that drove the trade. In addition to valuable goods, such trade routes facilitated the spread of religions, culture and ideas.

Presenter Tom Murphy is a retired scientist who traveled from Xian in the east to Kashgar in the west along the Silk Road corridor in 2012. He will discuss some ancient trade routes that linked disparate parts of the world, share images of the iconic Silk Road, and explain its reinvention today.

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