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The Silk Road was the ancient trade and cultural network connecting China with Central Asia, West Asia, Europe, and Africa. Zhang Qian's mission in 139 BC opened the route. UNESCO World Heritage since 2014. ## Overview The Silk Road (丝绸之路) was an ancient network of trade and cult…

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…and the whole of Mongolia (see Figure 1). They soon became a major power on the Silk Road Fig.1 Locations of the Uyghur Empire and Paleo-Climate Sites NOTES The dashed and dotted lines demarcate the territorial expansion and contraction of the Uyghur Empire during the eighth to n…

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…SEARCH Glass from Manthai, Sri Lanka: Insights into the supply of glass for the Silk Roads Samantha Dobson1 · Julian Henderson2,3 · Artemios Oikonomou4,5 · Simon Chenery6 Received: 17 April 2025 / Accepted: 13 October 2025 © The Author(s) 2025 Abstract Manthai served as a port em…

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…of this for future research. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Susan Whitfield Professor in Silk Road Studies, SISJAC, University of East Anglia, UK [email protected] KEYWORDS: Aurel Stein; Dunhuang; manuscripts; Silk Road; Buddhism TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Terzi, P., & Whitfield, S. (2024). Re…

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…oat’. 21 In public, ministers had to wear cassocks, sleeved cloaks, plain black silk, satin or velvet caps and dark- coloured stockings.22 Moore’s cassocks were made of a variety of mid-priced woollen cloths, including calamanco, prunella and paragon, fastened down the front with…

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…ATE IRON AGE EURASIA Ursula B. Brosseder INTRODUCTION The fascination that the “Silk Road” holds for scholars and laymen alike has been amply illus- trated over the last decades by an enormous production of literature both scholarly and popular, by numerous conferences and exhibi…