• 汉武帝元狩元年(前122年),张骞出使西域归来,
言使大夏时,见蜀布、邛竹杖,问所从来,曰从
东南身毒国,可数千里,得蜀贾人市。或闻邛西
可二千里,有身毒国。(《汉书·西南夷传》)。
• 蜀商开辟西南丝绸之路:最早的记载可以在公元
前4世纪印度政论家桥底利耶所著《政事论》中发
现“中国成捆的丝”。公元前4世纪另一位印度人
希腊化时期
• Palm leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves. They served as the paper of the ancient world in parts of Asia as far back as the fifteenth century BCE and possibly much earlier. They were used to record actual and mythical narratives in South Asia and in South East Asia. Initially knowledge was passed down orally, but after the invention of alphabets and their diffusion throughout South Asia, people eventually began to write it down in dried and smoke treated palm leaves of Palmyra palm or talipot palm.
波你尔的著作也说到“从中国输入的成束的丝”。
• 我国长沙战国(前475-前221)古墓出土了玻璃。