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7/10/2025, 10:14:08 AM
>The Silk Road by Luce Boulnois

>Boulnois writes about the Silk Road from its earliest days, beginning with an overview of sericulture, to its the modern day. Her account covers the goods traded, the cultures doing the trading, as well as war and conflict, religion, and politics along the Silk Road. In the modern day, she echoes a Pravda reporter in her view of the modern history of the Silk Road: "Before long, there where once the caravans made their halt, our two countries will meet with a steel handshake." She also predicts that silk may return to its old glory of being one of the most highly esteemed luxury goods, given that it takes roughly 2,500 cocoons to produce one pound of silk thread.

>But it was not long before silk, a material more iridescent than any known hitherto, became familiar to the Roman world. This generation who fought in the Syrian campaigns was the first to come by it, whether by trade or as booty in more fortunate encounters, but less than ten years after the defeat of Carrhae, the crowd witnessing Caesar's triumph at Rome were astonished to find that, among the luxuries exposed to the public gaze, the triumphant general had caused canopies of silk to be stretched above the heads of the spectators.