The Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great realised the importance of producing silk and ordered two Nestorian priests to go east to uncover the secret behind silk making. (`Ain Trez, Mont-Liban, Lebanon)
The Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great realised the importance of producing silk and ordered two Nestorian priests to go east to uncover the secret behind silk making.
Two years later, the priests returned from Central Asia, with a good quantity of silkworm eggs, which they had carefully hidden in their bamboo canes.
From then on, silkworm breeding developed in the Byzantine Empire, especially in Lebanon, where mulberry trees were grown and the silk worm was farmed. @livelove.aley @livelovearchitecture #thelivelovetour by @yaraqadance
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