Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire
6th-century event in which two monks smuggled silkworm eggs into the Roman Empire from China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Roman emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Roman Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Roman silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe.
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