Silk Road: Websites

A comprehensive topical list of links.
Many links here will be found in the other links listed in the boxes, but it also contains MANY more links.

This site contains a timeline of the silk road. Links are provided for the more important events that occurred.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.

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An initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature.

Links to a number of online information resources relating to the Silk Road.

Another timeline with great links.

This site details the history of the silk road. It discusses its origins in ancient China, how it linked Europe and Asia by trade, and the reasons for its decline.

Explore the Silk Road, which was not a road or highway, but a network of tails and trading posts scattered across Central Europe. This exhibition spans the period 206 B.C.E. - 220 C.E. The theme Monks and Merchants tells the story of the role the region of Gansu and Ningxi played in the Silk Road and its impact on Chinese civilization.

Extensive information about the oldest known trade route of the Islamic World with China.

A comprehensive history of the development of Buddhism in India that also addresses its spread into China via the Silk Road, reaching its height during the Sui Dynasty.

This site provides detailed information of the Chinese invention of block printing. Includes an image of the carved wood that was used in early Chinese printing.

Provides a cursory look at the trade route that was the Silk Road.

This site provides useful information about the land route to China called the Silk Road. Also provides maps of the Silk Road to China itself.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programs.

See link for Historical Texts to view travelers' narratives. An ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. Provides digital materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road.

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Take a journey across Asia and discover the secrets and wonders of the greatest trade route of ancient times.