The Silk Road: Where Cultures Collided

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

At the edge of the Gobi Desert, Dunhuang was once a bustling oasis on the famous Silk Road connecting China and the Mediterranean. For more than 1000 years, Dunhuang was an important pilgrimage site and a cultural melting pot where ideas, technologies and art flowed freely - encompassing multiple languages, faiths and cultures - and spanning literature, astronomy, medicine, politics and art.

Dr. Eleanor Janega goes to the British Library and meets curator Mélodie Doumy to get a rare glimpse into life in Dunhuang in a new exhibition of manuscripts, documents and artworks which remained sealed for nearly 900 years.

Gone Medieval is presented by Dr. Eleanor Janega. The editor is Ella Blaxill and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you
0:08.3	slide by on track to your
0:15.0	there,
0:20.0	the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.
0:21.0	This is how travels should feel, on our trains it does a vante west coast feel good travel
0:30.2	Buried in the depths of the internet is the Killest, a cache of chilling documents
0:36.2	containing hundreds of names, photos, addresses, and specific constructions for their murders.
0:42.4	Killest is a true story of how I ended up in a race against time to warn those who lives were in danger.
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0:57.9	joining Wandery Plus. Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanor Yannaga, and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the
1:10.3	podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.
1:14.2	We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gob-spacking details,
1:18.7	and the latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the Normans, from Kings to
1:23.6	Popes to the Crusades. We delve into the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us
1:29.7	who we really were and how we got here.
1:36.0	Today I've been let out of the Gone Medieval Dungeon for a special treat.
1:41.0	I've come to the British Library in London where visitors are currently being transported to 5th century China.
1:47.0	A unique place that was an extraordinary melting pot of people, languages, religions, cultures, and ideas.
1:57.7	The Oasis of Dunwong was established in the year at 111B.C. as a military outpost. But as travelers took to the overland trading routes
2:06.2	known as the silk roads, Dunland became an important resting place. At the beginning of the
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