1.   An important rest stop for camel caravans on the Silk Road connecting the Roman Empire with Central Asia and India, Bamiyan was once the westernmost outpost of Buddhism.

2.   Bamian was a vital stop for camel caravans along the ancient Silk Route between China and Rome.

3.   Care to join a camel caravan to the Great Pyramids of Egypt?

4.   Camel caravans fanned out from these towns, bearing incense to cities in Mesopotamia and around the Mediterranean.

5.   For centuries, the village served as a stopping point on the camel caravan trade centered in Timbuktu.

6.   Once the Marines were dug in, there was little to do but listen to the desert wind moan and watch a camel caravan plod across the horizon.

7.   One such party was a camel caravan led by P. Gilmer Breckinridge, who chiseled his name in the stone.

8.   Originally, they profited from the camel caravans that passed through Shekhawati along the great trading routes bearing spices and sandalwood, silks and saffron.

9.   The couple pour salt into a mold which can be carried by camel caravan hundreds of miles through the desert to southern Niger and northern Nigeria.

10.   These goods were then packed off by camel caravan to Egypt and Persia, to Palmyra in Syria and, often as not, on to Rome.