Posted on 07/23/2022 6:37:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Possibly just a bum report from one of the ancient writer's sources -- but it may have been silk, or one of the alternative silk types and this is the only record of it. The Indus Valley civ had silk around the same time as the Neolithic Chinese, but it wasn't the same source (they used silk moths).
https://www.worldhistory.org/Silk/
Silk in Antiquity
Definition
Mark Cartwrightby Mark Cartwright
published on 28 July 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAu5SLSLXxU
The Silk Road: Trade Route of the Ancient World
March 26, 2021
World History Encyclopedia
The Silk Road was a network of trading routes that connected a number of different regions in the ancient world, stretching over four thousand miles from China, through India and Asia Minor and through Mesopotamia and the African continent, all the way to Greece, Rome and Britain. These routes were formally established by the Han dynasty of China in 130 BCE and although it was a number of different trading routes, the name the Silk Road has always been favoured. Despite its name, not only silk travelled along these routes, but many other goods, too!
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188079348.pdf
The Archaeology of Early Silk
Irene Good
Harvard University, igood@fas.harvard.edu
2002
Here for the text:
https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue.html#section12
Here for a footnote on silk in Rome and the Mideast: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/weilue/notes11_30.html#12_4
Thanks!
Before there was Bab Bee, there was WWN, thanks to a FReeper who sent the link in FReepmail and probably doesn’t want credit for it:
ROME WAS BUILT IN A DAY! - Weekly World News
https://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/183648/rome-was-built-in-a-day/
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Dr Raoul McLaughlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PrB4kLQ1A
The Han Empire made Ancient Greek Coins?
Dr Raoul McLaughlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXzWI7zIx_4
Ancient China Discovered the Greeks?
Dr Raoul McLaughlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hffdx82i0sA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGk9VXhk_l__aLVp4Yp90lw/search?query=coins
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