For centuries, a small piece of dark fabric lay buried on the Central Asian steppes, alongside the remains of a young woman. Brown, brittle and barely distinguishable from the surrounding soil, the fragment looked like little more than a patch of dirt. Under a microscope, however, the cloth told a different story. It had traveled an extraordinary distance to reach the grave, centuries before the trade routes later known as the Silk Road began to take shape. A Scrap of Cloth in a Steppe Grave The fragment was recovered from the Karatumma cemetery in southeastern Kazakhstan’s Almaty region. Dating to…
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