As trade flourished along the network’s routes, so did construction, such as this massive fifth-century basilica in Adulis, a port city in what’s now Eritrea ... the Romans by generations. The Indian ...

Sometime in the year 1342, the Moroccan traveller Ibn Batutah made his way from Delhi to Cambay, a busy port on India ... among many vibrant trading cities on the Indian Ocean’s shores.

His book, The Rihla, talks of his travels in the Maldives and all throughout the Indian Ocean trading ports, and is perhaps the best depiction of the port cities, types of vessels, cargo traded ...

These trading ... the Indian Ocean coasts the Periplus mentions may not be well-known today but were some of the most vibrant trading centres of the world at the time. The Indian port city of ...

China has provoked the ire of the Indian ... of a new port city in Sri Lanka. New Delhi has responded cautiously to the move which could see Beijing project power into the Indian Ocean.