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Went to see the tomb of Yu Hong which is on display at the Art Gallery (AD535-593) - which among other things shows the routes of the Silk Road linking Europe to China. I was immediately curious to see if the towns along these routes appear on a much older set of maps - those by the geographer Claudius Ptolemy (AD 90-168), so dug out my copy of his maps for a closer look. And indeed there are towns shown, from the western edge of China, across India to Damascus.
Makes you wonder how much the Romans knew about what lies to the Far East of their empire.
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