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#SilkRoads

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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>
bookandswordblog<p>Ivory knife handle from a Roman site in Wels, Austria has an inscription in Kharosthi script from the Takalamakan Desert (East Turkestan) <a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59920" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/</span><span class="invisible">?p=59920</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/philology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philology</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/silkRoads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silkRoads</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/antiquidons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiquidons</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>
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