#history #SilkRoads #china

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.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-study-finds-that-domestic-cats-traveled-the-silk-road-to-china-about-1400-years-ago-180986206/

Ivory knife handle from a Roman site in Wels, Austria has an inscription in Kharosthi script from the Takalamakan Desert (East Turkestan) https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59920 #philology #silkRoads #antiquidons

I saw this book at this fascinating exhibit on art from #Uzbekistan and the #SilkRoads and wondered.... what will remain of our books in 500 years? https://www.louvre.fr/en/what-s-on/exhibitions/the-splendours-of-uzbekistan-s-oases
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