The Silk Route
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The Silkroad Foundation
www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html
Fascinating website with everything you could possibly want to know about the Silk Road/Route. Includes information on travellers, the history of silk, folklore, sports and games, food – and much, much more.
The Silk Road: Trade, travel, war and faith
www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/silkroad/main.html
A British Library/British Museum site that includes a way of viewing the Diamond Sutra, found at Dunhuang in 1907, which is the earliest printed book with a date (11 May 868).
Silk Road Seattle
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/
An ongoing public education project using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from AD 1 to the 17th century. Includes historical texts, web pages on historic cities and architecture and on traditional culture of the Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
