Published Jun 5, 2023
How The Secret to Silk Was Smuggled Out of China
Discover how the clandestine smuggling of silkworms by Byzantine monks from China transformed the global silk industry, shattered China's millennia-old monopoly, and led to the rise of Byzantine silk dominance, forever altering ancient trade dynamics.
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