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Desert caravans stretched for miles across dunes

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Traveling the Silk Road wasn't a solo trip. Merchants tied hundreds of camels together in massive, slow-moving strings, ensuring that if you got lost in a sandstorm, you were at least tethered to a very angry, spitting pack animal.

Desert caravans stretched for miles across dunes
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