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Ancient books found from Buddhist caves near the Silk Road contained more than twenty different languages. The most common languages were Turkic, Persian, Chinese, Arabic and Indian. Other languages included Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Russian and Mongolian.

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Was the silk road covered with silk?

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