#Buddhist icons from #Roman #Egypt to #Viking #Sweden reveal how Buddhist imagery circulated via trade, diplomacy, and migrants rather than through formal missionary expansion. Their portability and adaptable iconography allowed devotional forms and symbols to travel and acquire new meanings in distant contexts. In this post, we explore these unexpected traces of Buddhist contact across #AfroEurasia:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-11-12-buddha_icons_across_afro_eurasia/

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Did the people of Afro-Eurasia have a higher disease load than native Americans during the pre-modern era?
#history #worldhistory #diseases #epidemics #epidemology #humanhistory #immunesystem #afroeurasia #nativeamericans #illness #premodernity