Online Resources

This page is still very much in progress.

The best two sites are these in terms of having resources of many types about many places. I've linked to a few specific pages that I find particularly useful.

• The Silk Road Foundation
  • A list of travelers on the Silk Road, organized chronologically.
  • History of Silk
• Seattle Silk Road Website
  • Cities and Architecture Page - Many Photos. Start here for specific cites.

Other General Sites:

• An essay on the Silk Road. Also with pictures.
• The Silk Road project - focused on contemporary issues.
• British Library Exhibit on the Silk Road

Specific Topics:

• Isidore of Seville.com - Web directories on many relevant subjects. See especially
  • Ibn Battuta on the Web
  • Genghis Khan on the Web
• The International Dunhuang Project
  • Buddhism On the Silk Road
• Marco Polo at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
• Iran Chamber - On Iranian history and Culture

Sources

• The Krgyz national epic - Manas - translated
• The Secret History of the Mongols
• Islam - The Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Oddities

• Silk Road Online - an MMORPG based, sort of, on the Silk Road. I've never played it, but it looks ... odd. You should play it and let me know.