The strands of the "Silk Road."

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 21, 2002 | Copyright information

When German economic historian and geographer Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the phrase "Silk Road" in 1877 to denote the broad swath of Eurasia that is the focus of this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival (running Wednesday to June 30 and July 3 to 7 on the National Mall), the description was more poetic than practical.

Neither a roadway in the literal sense nor, in truth, a conduit exclusively for the buying and selling of silk, the ancient Asia-to- Europe trade route is ins...

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