A map indicating trading routes used around the 1st century CE centred on the Silk Road. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
My previous CEO had given me a couple books (in our ongoing conversation about history) covering the Middle East and around the making of Persia. I’m the curious type, so as I was reading the Persian Fire, I caught myself pulling up the various sites in the book on google earth. It sounds obvious now, but realizing that these were real places that I could visit got my imagination