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100			_aDean, Riaz
245			_aThe stone tower : _bptolemy, the silk road, and a 2,000-year-old riddle _cby Riaz Dean.
260			_bPenguin, _aHaryana : _c©2022
300			_axiv, 225 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
500			_aRiaz 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.
505			_tPart One: Birth of the Silk Road 1. The Grand Historian _t2. Barbarians from the North _t3. The Journey West _t4. Heavenly Horses _t5. The First Caravans _t6. The Silk Road _tPart Two: In the Heart of Asia 7. Migration of the Yuezhi _t8. The Kushan Empire _t9. Sogdian Traders _t10. The Archaeological Explorer _t11. The Hidden Library _tPart Three: Ptolemy's Stone Tower 12. Ptolemy's Geographia _t13. The Data _t14. The Description _t15. A New Approach _t16. Solomon's Throne
650			_aSurveyors
650			_aSilk, spices
650			_aSilk Road
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