Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c11.44
Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c11.44
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c11.44
Aristotle, however, knew a great deal more than this about the matter, though his account was evidently disbelieved². The Chinese jealously guarded their secret till the days of Justinian, when two adventurous monks smuggled silkworms’ eggs to Constantinople in a hollow cane.