Silk Road: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Iran Chamber Society - Silk Road. Oct 01, 2026
Media rearranged. Jul 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Folklife Festival - The Silk Road. Jul 27, 2026
Add new Web site: Penn Museum - The Silk Roads in History. Apr 09, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Weekend Evenings - The enormity of the ancient Silk Road. Feb 13, 2026
Media added. Jan 06, 2026
Media rearranged. Jan 06, 2026
Media rearranged. Jan 06, 2026
Add new Web site: Penn Museum - The Silk Roads in History (PDF). Jul 22, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The Silk Road: The Trans-Eurasian Movement of Goods, Ideas, Art, Science, and Innovation Science, and Innovation. May 17, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Lancaster University - The Silk Road. Apr 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - The Concept of the Silk Road in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Oct 10, 2023
Add new Web site: The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - The Silk Road. Aug 17, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - The Silk Road. Jan 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Smarthistory - The Silk Roads. Apr 05, 2022
Media added. Nov 09, 2021
Removed media. Aug 19, 2021
Corrected display issue. Sep 16, 2019
Add new Web site: Center of Science and Industry - Travelling the Silk Road. Jun 21, 2018
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Silk Road. May 03, 2018
Media added. Oct 30, 2017
Cross-references added. Oct 30, 2017
Replaced older version of the Silk Road map with a new version that shows more of the Great Wall of China. May 26, 2017
Map added. Jan 17, 2017
Add new Web site: The UNESCO Silk Roads Programme - About the Silk Roads. Dec 16, 2016
Add new Web site: Social Studies for Kids - The Silk Road. Dec 16, 2016
Add new Web site: Mr.Nussbaum - Silk Road Printable Reading Comprehension. Dec 16, 2016
Added video. Dec 03, 2014
Description of the Silk Road Project updated to expand the scope of it to a worldwide perspective. Nov 21, 2012
Mention added of the Silk Road's role in transmitting plague bacteria from Asia to Europe. Nov 20, 2012
Add new Web site: Hofstra University - Department of Global Studies and Geography - The Silk Road and Arab Sea Route. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: Iran Chamber Society - Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: San Jose State University Digital art Lobby - Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - The Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: University of California, Irvine - Earth System Science - The Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Silk Road in Ancient China. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: ChinaCulture.org - Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Add new Web site: Cultural China - History - A Short History of the Silk Road. Aug 17, 2012
Article updated and transliteration changed to Pinyin. Sep 05, 2008
Article added to new online database. May 27, 1999
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