Web
sites:
1. Silk Road Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html
2. Silk Road Seattle is the best web site about the history
of the Silk Road. It has links to Silk Road Foundation,
museum collections, maps, syllabi, historical texts and
many more subjects.
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/
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