Ancient Trade Routes
Salt, silk and the southern Silk Road.
The caravans that crossed from Yunnan to Bengal moved through these hills long before borders. Stilwell, Ledo, the Hump — the corridors that the twentieth century rediscovered were already old.
Upper Assam · Patkai range
The Southern Silk Road — Through the Patkai
Han dynasty onward
Long before the Stilwell Road, salt and silk crossed these passes on the backs of mules. The Patkai was not a frontier — it was a corridor.
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