Azerbaijan’s Silk Road: Rethreading history’s greatest trade network
By Mark Elliott, CNN We’re in Sheki, a magical little UNESCO World Heritage city tucked up against the thickly wooded foothills of Azerbaijan’s Greater Caucasus Mountains, on a rare tour of the silk factory which for decades has been the region’s economic mainstay. We’ve just been handed a bowl full of white, lozenge-shaped balls, each
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