Smithsonian Magazine

The Smithsonian Transfers Rare 2,300-Year-Old Silk Manuscripts to China

Newly transferred fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts on view in Beijing on May 18 Fu Tian / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images In the early hours of May 18, an airplane touched down in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.
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Silk : trade and exchange along the silk roads between Rome and China in antiquity / edited by Berit Hildebrandt with Carole Gillis

Introduction. Silk on the Silk Roads : Exchange between East and West in Antiquity / Berit Hildebrandt. Looking towards the West : how the Chinese viewed the Romans / Liu Xinru -- Textiles and trade ...
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Fiber Optics Replace Silk On China-Europe Route

Centuries ago it was the famed Silk Road trade route that linked China to Europe. Today, after five years of construction, the Orient and the Occident are joined by a 16,875-mile fiber optic cable ...
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Skein of Tsatlee silk filament; China; 1884

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Hank or skein of "Best Chop" Tsatlee ...