Board Games on the Old Silk Road
October 3, 2008 : added Tales of Arabia, So Ein Camel

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For over a thousand years hardy traders traversed the mountains, deserts and seas between the great civilization centers of Rome, China and India. Roman gold coins have been found in India and China and Chinese silk in the pyramids of Egypt. In the 19th century, the historian Ferdinand von Richthofen (father of the famous flier) coined the term "Silk Road" (in German, Seidenstrasse) to describe the long, narrow, easily-broken overland route between East and West, but there were also the Spice Route, the Incense Route and many others. On these routes there flowered not only trade, but the transmission of technology, art, culture – the Silk Road has been called the Internet of its day. Others document its history, but what you have come upon here is the only place, so far, to document games which evoke this rich past and offer some opportunity to relive its sense of wonder and adventure.

Silk Road Games:
Aladdin's Dragons – Ali Baba – Ali Baba</