Online Resources

This page is still very much in progress.

The best two sites are these:

• The Silk Road Foundation
• Seattle Silk Road Website

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:

• Buddhism On the Silk Road
• Isidore of Seville.com - Web directories on many relevant subjects. See especially
  • Ibn Battuta on the Web
  • Genghis Khan on the Web
• Islam - The Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Silk Road Online - an MMORPG based, sort of, on the Silk Road. I've never played it, but it looks ... odd.
• The International Dunhuang Project
• Marco Polo at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
• The Secret History of the Mongols

Timelines

• Visual Timeline with links to pages on each empire (Silk Road Seattle)
• Extremely detailed list timeline (Silk-road.com). Some links to additional articles.