Mongolian Landscape Map (Silk Road Landscape Map)-From Ming Dynasty, China

This "Mongolian Landscape Map" (or name: Silk Road Landscape Map) is a Ming Dynasty silk green landscape map hand scroll, about 3 meters long. The original map was a silk map drawn by the court for the emperor in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The map showed the main cities and mountain landforms on the thousands of kilometers of routes from Jiayuguan, the border pass of the Ming Dynasty, to Tianfang (today's Mecca in Saudi Arabia) and then to the "Rong Ground", which became an important basis for research on the Silk Road.

The whole volume marks 211 Ming Dynasty regional names transliterated from Turkic, Mongolian, Persian, Sogdian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian and other languages in Chinese, involving more than 10 countries and regions in Europe, Asia, and Africa, including China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Turkey, which is called the "Ming Dynasty Silk Road map". The Silk Road, which stretches for 20,000 kilometers, was an important link of economic and cultural exchanges between the ancients. The Map of the Silk Road Landscape will help scholars to further study the Silk Road in history and provide valuable references for the future development of the Belt and Road Initiative.