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I have family connections to the Silk Road. My cousin was an archeologist and curator at the Hermitage Museum in Russia, head of the Central Asian and Silk Road collections and an expert, THE expert, on Sogdian (Silk Road) culture. He spent most of his life excavating important sites in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where he chose to be buried. I have my own family threads woven into this Silk Road culture & curiosity about the multicultural people who traded ideas, skills, culture & faith along it.

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I have family connections to the Silk Road. My cousin was an archeologist and curator at the Hermitage Museum in Russia, head of the Central Asian and Silk Road collections and an expert, THE expert, on Sogdian (Silk Road) culture. He spent most of his life excavating important sites in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where he chose to be buried. I have my own family threads woven into this Silk Road culture & curiosity about the multicultural people who traded ideas, skills, culture & faith along it.