'The giraffes that sailed to medieval China' https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/giraffes-sailed-medieval-china … (pic=https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/museum/exhibits/China_exhibit/giraffe.htm …)pic.twitter.com/V3uFOjZWMf
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Chinese and other coins found in East Africa: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cHRvtwTLcMAC&lpg=PA472&pg=PA472#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/XjqjeLcJZe
Some recent finds of 11thC Chinese coins from Ethiopia+Zanzibar: https://www.academia.edu/5999530/Identification_of_a_Chinese_coin_found_in_Kuumbi_Cave_Zanzibar_by_prof._Felix_Chami … & https://www.academia.edu/2566792/Northern_Song_coin_finds_in_Harla_Ethiopia_point_to_newly_found_silk_routes_from_China_to_the_Horn_of_Africa … & https://www.academia.edu/8407965/A_second_Chinese_North_Song_coin_from_Kuumbi_Cave_Tanzania_is_identified …pic.twitter.com/7sgfL6oFyG
Distribution map of Chinese late 10th–early 13thC qingbai ware in Arabia and East Africa: https://afriques.revues.org/1836 pic.twitter.com/A7q3KbP3Ty
A fascinating medieval lion figurine poss made from Chinese money & excavated at Shanga, East Africa, see further https://afriques.revues.org/1752?lang=en :)pic.twitter.com/nW3TCfcwsS
Fwiw, a small number of giraffes were sent to southern Europe in the medieval era as well as China...: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-OmCfNI_SxAC&lpg=PA24&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/QSlfo6gX8D
The Medici giraffe features in the background of this fresco by Andrea del Sarto at the family's Poggio a Caiano villa.pic.twitter.com/e9RuPdNwQr
Ah, yes! Thanks! :)
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