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Exploring the Past, Shaping the Future: Heritage and Intercultural Exchange: Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism along the Silk Roads
The launch event, exhibition and roundtable for this publication celebrated its achievements, and served as a platform for dialogue among experts and authors featured in this volume, with its rich ...
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Did You Know? Traditional Strategy Games along the Silk Roads – Chess
Many recreational pursuits including abstract strategy games spread via the Silk Roads as merchants, artisans, envoys and ambassadors travelled along them, sharing the games of their home regions and ...
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Did you know?: Mapping and Compilation of the World Maps along the Silk Roads
We invite you to join us each week for Did you know? articles which adhere to preselected themes. Knowledge and appreciation of these subjects helps to preserve, diffuse, and promote elements of our ...
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Pastoral and Nomadic Tribes at the Beginning of the First Millennium BC
The cultures and economies of the nomadic tribes of northern Asia had many common traits, simply as a result of the requirements of life on the Steppes. Developments in farming technology in the Iron ...
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Did you know?: Ancient Trading Centres in the Malay Peninsula
Archaeological research has identified a nuanced trade system forming in the Malay Peninsula around the 6 th and 7 th centuries. The earliest of these sites, situated both on the east and west coast ...
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Young Scholars on the Silk Roads: An Interview Series – Abdou Rahim Lema Mohamed, Benin
The Young Scholars on the Silk Roads interview series seeks to empower young people, by giving youth a platform from which to transmit their voices. Via this series young scholars hailing from ...
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Study on junk-trade ceramics during 13th 16th Century AD salvaged from the Gulf of Thailand
Serving as the gateway between East and West, the Gulf of Thailand was a busy trade route for commercial vessels. Since the area was rich in resources, spices and exotic goods, traders also often ...
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A Collection of selected maps of Iran in the Qajar Era (1193-1344 Lunar Calendar / 1779-1926 Gregorian Calendar)
The collection of maps is a compilation of handwritten and lithographic maps which show the geographical plateau of Iran as a major part of the historical Silk Roads as well as the interface of the ...
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Did you know?: The Spread of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia through the Trade Routes
Religious movements and religions have had an important role on the history of the Silk Roads. It is notably the case of Buddhism which had a considerable influence on the early trade routes. Within ...
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Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha
The Lord Buddha was born in 623 BC in the sacred area of Lumbini located in the Terai plains of southern Nepal, testified by the inscription on the pillar erected by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 249 ...
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Cities along the Silk Roads
Cities grew up along the Silk Roads as essential hubs of trade and exchange, here merchants and travellers came to stop and rest their animals and begin the process of trading their goods. From Xi’an ...