(Airdate: September 16, 2025) We’re at Gansu Province at Yanguan Pass. Until mondern times the Pass marked the westernmost outpost of the Chinese empire. One such attempt to further extend their dominion to the west was the establishment of Loulan, 400 kilometers to the west, in the middle of the forbidding waste of the Lop Desert. Two Buddhist travelers, as well as Marco Polo were successful in crossing this landscape, though all three were convinced the desert was haunted….
Silk – 88
