The fourth and final part of our series on The Silk Road.

It is important to understand the impact of The Silk Road both in its own time and in ours. And few better symbols exist to help us do that than The Silver Tree Fountain of Karakorum.

To understand why, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the man who first described it for the Western world. Unfortunately, that man is William of Rubruck and he doesn’t much like anyone. At all. No, sir.

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