![Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks, Plate 2 from "The Introduction of the Silkworm" [Vermis Sericus] ca. 1595](https://china-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Emperor-Justinian-Receiving-the-First-Imported-Silkworm-Eggs-from-Nestorian-Monks-768x580.jpg)
How a few Monks Smuggled Silkworm Eggs into the Byzantine Empire
Ancient Industrial espionage: the story of the Few Monk-spies Who Broke Two Monopolies. As a result of the removal of middlemen (China on silk production … Read more
Ancient Industrial espionage: the story of the Few Monk-spies Who Broke Two Monopolies. As a result of the removal of middlemen (China on silk production … Read more