New stretch of the Silk Road discovered in Tibet
Posted On: Apr 22nd, 2016 at 13:03
Tibet
Our lives would not be the same today if it wasn’t for the ancient Silk Road, meandering its way across Asia for thousands of miles. It was a trade route where goods were exchanged between east and west, and it shaped modern trade methods and gave us goods we would otherwise never have seen.
Archaeologists have now uncovered a new stretch of the famous road that wound its way up into Tibet, a country that today has been wiped off the map by an organised and silent campaign (mainly due to deliberate western media ignorance) by the Chinese to take its territory, not to mention the murder of thousands of Tibetans over many decades. That issue is mentioned in my book, ‘The Evolution’, but it is also another story to be discussed another time.
This discovery was made when archaeologists started digging in a 1,800-year-old tomb in the highlands of Tibet, 13,000 feet (4,300m) above sea level. The tomb contained Chinese goods including a gold mask, silk woven fabrics and bronze artefacts.
It was previously thought the silk road clung to lowlands and mountain valleys, but this evidence suggests the silk road also traversed high altitudes. I wonder how many more thousands of miles will be discovered with this new evidence?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archaeologists-uncover-another-branch-of-the-silk-road/
