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2023
The Silk Road/Roads is a term that is now widely used in scholarship and beyond, yet it is a relatively recent adoption and there is uncertainty and disagreement about its scope and focus. If there is consensus, it is that it refers to premodern routes of trade and interaction across Afro-Eurasia, primarily focusing from about 200 bce through the first
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The Silk Road/Roads is a term that is now widely used in scholarship and beyond, yet it is a relatively recent adoption and there is uncertainty and disagreement about its scope and focus. If there is consensus, it is that it refers to premodern routes of trade and interaction across Afro-Eurasia, primarily focusing from about 200 bce through the first
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2022
Abstract Evocative and enigmatic, the Silk Road occupies a unique place in contemporary culture and international affairs. Across the world, it has captured the imagination as a story of camel caravans crossing desert and mountain, of precious goods moving between East and West, and of ideas, religions, and technologies migrating across ...
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Abstract Evocative and enigmatic, the Silk Road occupies a unique place in contemporary culture and international affairs. Across the world, it has captured the imagination as a story of camel caravans crossing desert and mountain, of precious goods moving between East and West, and of ideas, religions, and technologies migrating across ...
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2021
Abstract This chapter shows how in early antiquity the universal appeal of silk spread across Eurasia through a trade network known as the Silk Roads. Silk inspired the economic exchange of trading goods, which produced a network of trade centers and cities.
Robert N. Wiedenmann, J. Ray Fisher
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Abstract This chapter shows how in early antiquity the universal appeal of silk spread across Eurasia through a trade network known as the Silk Roads. Silk inspired the economic exchange of trading goods, which produced a network of trade centers and cities.
Robert N. Wiedenmann, J. Ray Fisher
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Nature, 2004
Can the intellectual route from China to the United States become a two-way street? Paul Smaglik investigates.
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Can the intellectual route from China to the United States become a two-way street? Paul Smaglik investigates.
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Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 2003
COULD A SILK VEST STOP A SPEEDing bullet? Can spiders spin new connective tissue for an injured athlete? Not yet, but scientists are working on it. In April, a team of university scientists reported evidence that the preysnaring "capture silk" spun by orb-weaving spiders is made of a complex network of wet molecular springs [Nat.
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COULD A SILK VEST STOP A SPEEDing bullet? Can spiders spin new connective tissue for an injured athlete? Not yet, but scientists are working on it. In April, a team of university scientists reported evidence that the preysnaring "capture silk" spun by orb-weaving spiders is made of a complex network of wet molecular springs [Nat.
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Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History
Journal of World History, 2000Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to under stand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian his tory. The role played by the Silk Roads in exchanging goods, tech nologies, and ideas between regions of agrarian civilization is well understood.
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Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
2022With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these captivating silks, an international team of experts reveal that Byzantine culture was ever-moving ...
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