The stone tower :
Dean, Riaz
The stone tower : ptolemy, the silk road, and a 2,000-year-old riddle by Riaz Dean. - Haryana : Penguin, ©2022 - xiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Riaz Dean blends the best of this region’s history and geography with ancient cartography to solve a 2,000-year-old riddle that has perplexed scholars for centuries: Where was the Stone Tower that the great geographer Claudius Ptolemy had written about? This highly significant but now-lost landmark represented the midpoint and thumping heart of the Silk Road, as merchant caravans plied their wares between the Occident and the Orient.
Part One: Birth of the Silk Road
1. The Grand Historian 2. Barbarians from the North 3. The Journey West 4. Heavenly Horses 5. The First Caravans 6. The Silk Road Part Two: In the Heart of Asia
7. Migration of the Yuezhi 8. The Kushan Empire 9. Sogdian Traders 10. The Archaeological Explorer 11. The Hidden Library Part Three: Ptolemy's Stone Tower
12. Ptolemy's Geographia 13. The Data 14. The Description 15. A New Approach 16. Solomon's Throne
9780670093625
Surveyors
Silk, spices
Silk Road
526.9 / DEA-S
The stone tower : ptolemy, the silk road, and a 2,000-year-old riddle by Riaz Dean. - Haryana : Penguin, ©2022 - xiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Riaz Dean blends the best of this region’s history and geography with ancient cartography to solve a 2,000-year-old riddle that has perplexed scholars for centuries: Where was the Stone Tower that the great geographer Claudius Ptolemy had written about? This highly significant but now-lost landmark represented the midpoint and thumping heart of the Silk Road, as merchant caravans plied their wares between the Occident and the Orient.
Part One: Birth of the Silk Road
1. The Grand Historian 2. Barbarians from the North 3. The Journey West 4. Heavenly Horses 5. The First Caravans 6. The Silk Road Part Two: In the Heart of Asia
7. Migration of the Yuezhi 8. The Kushan Empire 9. Sogdian Traders 10. The Archaeological Explorer 11. The Hidden Library Part Three: Ptolemy's Stone Tower
12. Ptolemy's Geographia 13. The Data 14. The Description 15. A New Approach 16. Solomon's Throne
9780670093625
Surveyors
Silk, spices
Silk Road
526.9 / DEA-S