Educational Resources

Educational Websites:

British Library: International Dunhuang Project http://idp.bl.uk/

British Museum:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/silkroad/main.html

China the Beautiful:
http://www.chinapage.com/silkroad.html

Silk Road Project
http://www.silkroadproject.org/about/contact.html

Silk Road Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

University of Washington, Simpson Center for the Humanities
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/ Includes an on-line exhibition (http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml , exquisite if a little confusing), themes of Cities and Architecture, Traditional Culture (gers, food, weddings, religions, dwellings, oral epics), Eurasian Geography, illustrated with excellent photographic materials, Interactive Maps Exercises section, a large selection of historical documents in translation, learning guides. Multimedia, includes video footage.

University of California Berkeley
http://www.ecai.org/silkroad/ Silk Road Atlas. Interactive maps for Land, Empires, Routes and Travel. Very interesting photographs, including a large set by Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii, one of the preeminent scholars of Muslims in China, taken in Western China and along the Chinese-Pakistani border

University of California Irvine:
http://www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html#10

National Geographic:
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/silk.html
This page has links to other National Geographic resources for such important terms as spices and key religions, and also to a 3-part feature on Marco Polo