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The Silk Road

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The Interconnectedness Fostered by the Silk Road

The cultural mixing that happens along the Silk Road in the OACs particularly is quite astonishing. And you see some of the fantastic combinations of different cultural influences. But perhaps the most astonishing thing, or the thing which encapsulates the combination, is actually from this Indian-influenced area that Tim is interested in talking about. There's a reliquary there that seems to have held possibly Buddhist relics, but it's not completely clear what kind of relics. On the top of it there's a Buddha, a Gander and Buddha, flanked by two Hindu gods, Brahma and Indra. The inscription is in Karosti, one of the Indian scripts. This is just an astonishing

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