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The Silk Road's Paper Trail: Samarkand's Revolution in Knowledge
Long before Gutenberg, a battle on the Talas River in 751 CE changed how the world made books. When Arab forces captured Chinese papermakers near modern-day Kyrgyzstan, the secret of papermaking — a technology China had guarded for centuries — began its slow journey westward. Lucas and Luna explore how this single transfer of knowledge transformed Samarkand into a global hub of paper production, and how paper itself reshaped Central Asian culture from the courts of the Samanids to the scriptoria of Bukhara. They trace the spread of paper along the Silk Road, the rise of the Samarkand paper…
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