…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…

…outh and east (especially the large Iranian and Iraqi markets at the end of the Silk/Spice Route), as well as its close ties with Constantinople and the rest of the Black Sea, established the Pontic capital as a vital emporium. Benefiting from the increasing economic development …

…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…

… / By athm_b74bf6 S atin is a smooth , shiny fabric that is typically made from silk or poly ester . It is often used for evening wear or br idal gown s because of its luxurious appearance . Sat in fabric has a history that dates back to ancient China , where it was first used fo…

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China’s Digital Silk Road Strategic Implications for the EU and India Richard Ghiasy & Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy August 2020 Contents 1. Abstract 4 2. Introduction 5 3. Implication I 8 The Creation of a Chinese Digital Backbone 4. Implication II 11 The Setting of Technological Sta…

…tedir (Röhrborn 2015, 56-57). Clauson, bu kelimenin XI. yüzyıldan itibaren ‘silk brocade // sırmalı ipek kumaş’ vb. şekilde, XI. yüzyıldan önce ise ‘treasure // hazine’ şeklinde kullanıldığını belirtmektedir (ED 78a). Nadalyayev vd., bu kelimenin ilk anlamını ‘драгоценности // mü…

…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…

…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…

… National Museum, in 1913. All three garments are made of the same heavy golden silk brocade, woven with silver-gilt threads by the skilled weavers of an Italian (Venetian?) workshop, in the middle of the 15th century. The pictorial embroideries applied on the dorsal cross of the…

…s Connection with the Mahāratnakūṭa (Da Baoji jing 大寶積經) Collection Jonathan A. Silk and †Gadjin M. Nagao 1 Introduction Mahāyāna Buddhism in India produced a vast number of scriptures, classified primarily into sūtra and tantra.1 How much of this production has been lost to the …

…KEYWORDS: Charles-Eudes Bonin; French exploration of Asia; Central Asia; China; Silk Road; Dunhuang; Mogao Caves; Paul Pelliot; Sven Hedin TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Doumy, M. (2023). CharlesEudes Bonin: the first French Person to visit Dunhuang. Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage, 1…

…DE BİR TEMA OLARAK KULLANILMASININ ÖNEMİ The IMPORTANCE of UTILIZING the SILK ROAD as A SUBJECT in SOCIAL STUDIES Hasan IŞIK Mustafa GÖKÇE Öz: Tarihteki öneminin yanında günümüzde de yeniden canlandırma gibi projeler ile gündeme gelen İpek Yolu’nun barındırdığı birçok anlam …

…der of several international collaborative projects, including the "Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey" (with Dr. Kate Franklin) and "Fortifications along the Silk Roads" (with Dr. Sergio Ferdinandi). Her current research focuses on medieval fortifications and infrastructure, with broa…

…outhern tip leading to India. Prior to 1500, existing land routes—including the Silk Road—were primary conduits for bringing Asian goods to Europe. However, the gradual loss of Roman territory in Asia and the rise of Arab power in the Middle East pushed merchants to seek other pa…