BOOK REVIEW: AZERBAIJAN ON SILK ROAD Baku: Publishing house “Tahsil”, 2020. 384 pages

Abstract

The review gave a positive assessment to the new publication devoted to the study of the trending topic – the history of the Great Silk Road. The book was prepared by an author’s team consisting of archaeologists, historians, orientalists and architects. The project leader and scientific editor of the book is a well-known specialist in the field of Silk Road studies in our region, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Sh. M. Mustafaev. The book was prepared and published with the support of the International Fund for Turkic Culture and Heritage. The peer-reviewed book is the first experience of analyzing the influence of the Silk Road on the process of historical development of Azerbaijan throughout its functioning from antiquity to the late Middle Ages.