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Silk Road : a new history

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Valerie
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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500 |a The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different, and far more interesting, as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For millennia, key records remained hidden—often deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping. But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed  
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