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In 2003, Professor Antonia Vicziany, of Australia's Monash University, pioneered a groundbreaking project to record and preserve Kashgar's little documented heritage sites.

Travel writer, photographer and ancient history addict Ethel Davies chats to Heritage Key about her adventures in the Roman world.

The Chinese built the Silk Road as a means to export their precious silk. In return, they received gemstones and metals, and even medicines in later times. But the Road was as much a conduit for culture as a means of trade.