{"id":155137,"date":"2026-07-25T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155137"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:00:10","slug":"long-before-the-silk-road-silkworm-cocoons-already-existed-in-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155137","title":{"rendered":"Long before the Silk Road, silkworm cocoons already existed in Uzbekistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 138BC, Chinese diplomat and explorer Zhang Qian was sent as an envoy to the western regions.<br \/>\nThe Han dynasty envoy failed to achieve his emperor\u2019s goal of launching a pincer attack against the Xiongnu nomadic confederation, but he unexpectedly discovered a route.<br \/>\nThe land route started from Changan, present-day Xian, and passed through Gansu province and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, reaching Central and West Asia, and connecting various countries along the Mediterranean.<br \/>\nAmong the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3361762\/long-silk-road-silkworm-cocoons-already-existed-uzbekistan?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn 138BC, Chinese diplomat and explorer Zhang Qian was sent as an envoy to the western regions. The Han dynasty envoy failed to achieve&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}