Which sounds plausible to me.) The Silk Road’s noisy bazaars of alien products and ideas—Renaissance European, ancient Greek, Indian, Persian, Chinese—stoked this intellectual explosion.

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian ... as well as fine silk and cotton products, various coins, painted pottery sculpture and food were also found in ...

Muzzamil Hussain was in grade school when the first bombs fell on the playground outside of his classroom in Kargil, a mountain city in the Indian ... to show their ancient Silk Road artefects ...

coins and a bronze mirror from the Han Dynasty (206BC-AD220), at the renowned Mengchaktepa site in Uzbekistan. These artifacts confirm the site's pivotal role as a hub along the ancient Silk Road ...

A large number of coins ... with ancient foreign currencies such as coins from Persia. "These relics reveal that ancient Xizhou was an important hub for exchanges along the ancient Silk Road ...