Season One · 12 episodes
The Silk Road was never one road, and nobody ever travelled all of it. This season follows it the way it actually worked: one gate, one caravan, one market, one cave at a time — from a single envoy leaving Chang’an in 138 BC to the freight trains and container ships that run the same corridor today.
Episodes
13 Years a Prisoner: The Envoy Who Opened the Silk Road
The Great Wall Ends Here — and the Silk Road Begins
Silk Road Caravan: 20 Owners Before Rome
Chang’an: The Million-Person City of the Silk Road
Mogao Caves: A Cliff With 1,000 Years of Painting
The Chinese Silk Secret Rome Never Learned
The Monks Who Carried Buddhism to China
3 Chinese Inventions That Changed the World
China–Europe Railway: 10,000 km in 16 Days
The Sea Silk Road: Inside the World’s Busiest Ports
Saving the Mogao Caves, One Square Centimetre at a Time
The Silk Road Never Ended — Here’s Why
Coming next
Season Two will follow Chinese tea, from the mountain groves to the first steaming cup.