Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the East Roman Empire

In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Eastern Roman silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe. == Background == Silk was first produced sometime during the third millennium BCE by the Chinese.

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Smuggling of silkworm eggs into the East Roman Empire

In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Eastern Roman silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe. == Background == Silk was first produced sometime during the third millennium BCE by the Chinese.

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