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First up: Quanzhou’s Muslims, who today still live in scattered towns. The extent mosque dates to 11th c. Reputedly as early as 618 Mohammed’s disciples came evangelising to the port.

Mountains, steppe, desert and Covid overcome to finally make it to the holy grail of desert cities: the Tangut fortress of Khara Khoto, deep in Inner Mongolia’s Badain Jaran desert,

At long last I made it: a trip into the remote Gansu countryside to track down the town of Liqian 骊靬, to which is attached the strangest of stories: that

Being thinking about coins and coloniser/colonised identities a bit today. Coins of Greco-Bactrians in today’s Afghanistan are famous for their size and quality - like this glorious gold stater of