Introduction: Silk on the Silk Roads.

Networks of trade and exchange along the Israeli Silk Road: the silk and cotton finds from Nahal Omer, Negev Desert

“…The trade and exchange of goods, people and technologies in antiquity along the Silk Roads have been the subject of numerous studies in recent decades (e.g. Hansen 2017;Hildebrandt 2017). We seek to contribute to this global history through a study of the textile finds from a small village and way station in the Negev Desert in southern Israel.…”