Used Oriental carpets sell for up to thousands of dollars. A Tabriz carpet from Northwest Persia was auctioned by Sotheby's for $68,500 and it isn't the most expensive carpet sold. American Indian ...

But the story of Oriental rugs goes back so much further — try 3000 B.C., when Nomadic tribes in Mongolia and Turkey used hair from their camels and sheep to weave carpets to keep their earthen ...