{"product_id":"manuscripts-of-the-silk-road-ramsey-fendall-9780953942299","title":"Manuscripts of the Silk Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than a thousand years, the paths of the Silk Road joined the distant empires of East Asia and the Mediterranean, forming a complex web of trade, pilgrimage and intellectual exchange between China, Central Asia, Persia, Tibet, India, the Near East and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterest in the Silk Road was renewed in the nineteenth century. In 1907 Sir Aurel Stein made one of the most sensational archaeological finds of all time: at Dunhuang he discovered a cache of thousands of manuscripts dating from the fifth to the eleventh centuries in several different languages. Most such documents have ended up in institutions like the British Museum, the Bibliothèque Nationale and other national libraries in India, China and Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn keeping with the diversity of the Dunhuang discoveries, this book consists of examples of manuscripts in Chinese, Khotanese, Bactrian, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic. The material provides a sense of the fruitful exchanges as well as bitter struggles in these regions over the centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ramsey Fendall,Will Kwiatkowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0953942295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780953942299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Holberton Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.86h x 9.40w x 0.20d","brand":"Ramsey Fendall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443745272063,"sku":"9780953942299","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3b4be995-5800-43ca-8614-d5c8e5157220.jpg?v=1777207553","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/manuscripts-of-the-silk-road-ramsey-fendall-9780953942299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}