03 Mar 2006

Silk Road Society (UK) Web Site
Silk Road Society (UK), Farnham, Surrey, UK
Supplied note: "The Silk Road Society (UK) aims to raise awareness in the UK of the regions of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China through which the ancient Silk Roads traversed. The website at [the URL below] will provide a forum for discussion on a range topics related to the Silk Road from travel and photography to charity work and academic historical research. The Society is run as a free club for members and we encourage your active participation in its development. For more information please contact Nick Rowan, nick--at--travelthesilkroad.org - nr."
Site content: * Forum, * Travel Blog, * Photo Gallery; * History (Detailed History, Research Articles [restricted for Silk Road Society members only - ed.], Silk Road Religions, Research Organisations, Resources & References); * Travels; * Charities; * Contact us; * Search.
[A general audience site which erroneously states in the Silk Road History Timeline section that around 400 BC "Empire of Alexander the Great expands into Asia," that the 1st Crusade has occurred between 950 and 1050 AD (which - according to the website - is also the very time when "Genghis Khan unites Mongols and expands empire") and finally, that around 2000 AD "Tibet comes under Soviet Rule." In short, a site to be taken with a camel-train of salt - ed.]
URL http://www.travelthesilkroad.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tibetculture.net/
Link reported by: Nick Rowan (nick--at--travelthesilkroad.org), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30