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Aethelflaed<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> </p><p>A study has ascertained that the domestic cat were traded along the Silk Roads to China. Cats arrived into China about 600CE, which was 1500 years after their introduction into Europe. Cats were given as gifts by merchants to wealthy Chinese. </p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-study-finds-that-domestic-cats-traveled-the-silk-road-to-china-about-1400-years-ago-180986206/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">a-new-study-finds-that-domestic-cats-traveled-the-silk-road-to-china-about-1400-years-ago-180986206/</span></a></p>
Ola's Kool Kitchen<p>My latest for @TheTimesofCentralAsia visiting the Silk Roads Exhibition at the The British Museum : A beating heart of the Ancient World <a href="https://lnkd.in/djubz24d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lnkd.in/djubz24d</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/BritishMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/AncientWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientWorld</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/ArtExhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtExhibition</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cultural</span></a> Heritage <a href="https://musician.social/tags/ArtAndCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtAndCulture</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/HistoryBuff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryBuff</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MuseumLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuseumLovers</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Eurasia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eurasia</span></a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/CentralAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralAsia</span></a></p>
Claire Barnes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@KentNavalesi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KentNavalesi</span></a></span> My eye goes immediately to the sites in China, India, the Middle East &amp; Central Asia: known ports &amp; trade hubs &amp; interesting leads. A fascinating map of <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploration</span></a>, <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/TradeHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeHistory</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a>, &amp; a terrific archaeological resource. <br>🙏 <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/Ashmolean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ashmolean</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://h-net.social/tags/OxfordUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OxfordUniversity</span></a></p>
Kat Kimbriel<p>If you dream of the Silk Roads and write fantasies about lost cities?</p><p>They found some of the real cities. <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/tags/Lidar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lidar</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/lidar-mapping-reveals-mountainous-medieval-cities-along-the-silk-road/?itm_source=parsely-api" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/science/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">0/lidar-mapping-reveals-mountainous-medieval-cities-along-the-silk-road/?itm_source=parsely-api</span></a></p>
earthling<p>The Silk Roads: A New History of the World</p><p>From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to Western imperialism and the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work illuminates how the Silk Roads--the crossroads of the world, the meeting place of East and West--perhaps more than anything else, shaped global history over the past two millennia. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a></p>
earthling<p>Imagined Geographies<br>The Maritime Silk Roads in World History, 100–1800</p><p>Imagined Geographies is a pioneering work in the study of history and geography of the pre-1800 world. In this book, Gunn argues that different regions astride the maritime silk roads were not only interconnected but can also be construed as “imagined geographies.” </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marititime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marititime</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a></p>
Ms AB ☕<p>Contact silkroads@kings.cam.ac.uk if you're interested in joining a Zoom seminar tomorrow abt the history of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> . One in a series of terrific talks. You can join their mailing list for updates. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CentralAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralAsia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
Rebecca Nordquist<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> Which also got me curious.... any good suggestions for readable histories of the <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> ? <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a>​</p>
Rebecca Nordquist<p>I saw this book at this fascinating exhibit on art from <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/Uzbekistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uzbekistan</span></a> and the <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a> and wondered.... what will remain of our books in 500 years? <a href="https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/the-splendours-of-uzbekistan-s-oases" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibit</span><span class="invisible">ions/the-splendours-of-uzbekistan-s-oases</span></a><br> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://akademienl.social/tags/louvre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>louvre</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
ATJ<p>Preservation of Cultural Heritage in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> publication:</p><p>'A History of Afghanistan in 100 Objects' featuring treasures from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalMuseum</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanistan</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kabul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kabul</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dari</span></a> translation</p><p>Chapter 8 ~ Early Buddhism in Afghanistan, p148<br>(Third Century BCE to Tenth Century CE)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BuddhistArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuddhistArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gandhara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gandhara</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GandharanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GandharanArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GrecoRoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GrecoRoman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Silkroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silkroads</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/oi-nma-partnership?s=03" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oi.uchicago.edu/research/proje</span><span class="invisible">cts/oi-nma-partnership?s=03</span></a></p><p>🙏 Paul Clammer</p>
Tom Elliott<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ISAWNYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISAWNYU</span></a> has just announced its first "Expanding the Ancient World Workshop", to be held online on 7 December 2022 at 5pm US Eastern Time:</p><p>"Diverse Perspectives on the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SilkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilkRoads</span></a>: The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Sogdians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sogdians</span></a>"</p><p>Registration required: <a href="https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-workshop-sogdians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-works</span><span class="invisible">hop-sogdians</span></a></p><p>ETAW is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Keyed to the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> Department of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SocialStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialStudies</span></a> Scope and Sequence, this program is designed to offer <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>K12</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/educators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>educators</span></a> ... </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ancientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a></p>
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