{"id":228920,"date":"2026-01-13T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/glazed-sherds-in-remote-gobi-desert-reveal-ancient-persian-trade-connections"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:13:56","slug":"glazed-sherds-in-remote-gobi-desert-reveal-ancient-persian-trade-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/glazed-sherds-in-remote-gobi-desert-reveal-ancient-persian-trade-connections","title":{"rendered":"Glazed sherds in remote Gobi Desert reveal ancient Persian trade connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glazed-sherds-in-remote-gobi-desert-reveal-ancient-persian-trade-connections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2352409X25005784\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports<\/i>, Dr. Ellery Frahm and his colleagues analyzed two unusual blue-green glazed ceramic sherds discovered in the Gobi Desert in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Their analysis reveals that the two sherds, originating in small seasonal herding camps, were high-value goods traded from the Persian empire, likely during the Early Islamic period, providing important insight into the far-flung connections and trade networks these nomadic communities were a part of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Dr. Ellery Frahm and his colleagues analyzed two unusual blue-green glazed ceramic sherds discovered in the Gobi Desert in 2016. Their analysis reveals that the two sherds, originating in small seasonal herding camps, were high-value goods traded from the Persian empire, likely during the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}