This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief

This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief

The ancient trade routes that made up the Silk Road were some of the great conduits of cultural and material exchange in world history. In this intriguing book,

Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.

The Silk Road, which has been understood as a generalized route of trade between the East and the West, is different from European, North African, and Near East