Here is an excellent essay and fascinating online exhibition about one of the great trading cities along the Silk Roads, Palmyra.
The essay, called "Palmyra: Caravan City and Cultural Crossroads," describes the city as "a grand caravan city and center of multiculturalism... situated on a desert path linking the great land, sea, and river trading corridors that extended from China to Rome." The essay might be a great reading assignment for a unit on the Sill Roads.
The exhibit is based on drawings made by Louis-François Cassas, a French artist and architect, who spent time in Palmyra in the late 1700s. The Getty Research Institute acquired most of the drawings in 1984 and are the basis of the online exhibition.
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