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Why were silkworms smuggled to Constantinople?
Silk had long been prized as the most valuable of al materials – it was literally worth weight in gold when the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, (AD 483 AD 565), set up a weaving industry in his capital city of Constantinople.
Raw silk was always imported from China, where, for countless centuries, the art of producing silk was a closely guarded secret. However, Justinian persuaded two Persian monks, who had lived for a time in China, to return there and smuggle out a stock of silk worm eggs. ‘Ibis they succeeded in doing, by hiding the eggs inside the hollow bamboo rods that they used as staffs on their journey. The eggs hatched successfully, and it was from this stock that all the rut tire silkworms of Europe originated.
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