SILK ROAD INFO
- The Silk Road Foundation
- In Celebration of the Silk Road
- Silk Road Seattle
- China The Beautiful: Silk Road to China
- Silk Road Today: Oliver Wild’s Silk Road Photos
GEOGRAPHY
- Map China, History: Silk Road Schematic
Early Han Dynasty - Turfan Water System [Underground]
- Silk Road Pictures: Modern Map
- Turfan Grape Valley
- TaklaMakan Development
- Caves of Petra
- Turpan [Turfan] Tour
- Garimasu Cave Hotel
- Karez, the Underground Canal
CULTURE AND PEOPLE
- Mongolian History Blog
- Early Merchants of the Silk Road
- Uygher People, Uyghar Food
- Genghis Kahn and his Empire, Yert Building For Everyone,
Cooking Ancient Recipes: Mongolian Menu - Russia’s Far East, What Is Novgorod?, History of Novgorod
- Swashbuckling Jews of the Silk Road, Timeline of Jewish Persecution
ART REFERENCE LINKS
- Pictures of the Steppe Warrior
extensive load time, but worth it. - MCP Disorders: Celebrating Manly Sports in Mongolia
- Traditional Mongolian Clothing
- BBC News: Remembering Genghis Khan
HOMOSEXUALITY OF THE TIME
- Paul Halsall: The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
- The Construction of Homosexuality – by David Frank Greenberg
[googlebooks] - Homosexuality in the Middle Ages – Warren Johansson and William A. Percy
- Russian Literature [section 1] @ the glbtq Encyclopedia
- Russian Gay History
- Genghis Khan’s Code: First to Ban homosexuality [various]
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BOOKS AT AMAZON.COM
- The Ancient Silk Road Map: An Illustrated Map Featuring the Ancient Network of Routes Between China and Europe (Odyssey Maps)
- Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia
- Medieval Technology and Social Change
- Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics
- Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants
- Oasis Identities
- MONGOLS: From Genghis Khan To Tamerlane
- Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire (Studies on East Asia)
- Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History
- Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-1860s
- Russia at a Crossroads: History, Memory and Political Practice (The Cummings Center, 8)
- Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian)
- Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization (Studies in Russian and European Literature)
- Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)
- Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China
- Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
