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A01=Elisabeth R. OConnell
A01=Luk Yu-ping
A01=Sue Brunning
A01=Tim Williams
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Silk Roads

The true soul of this new exhibition has been encapsulated within a single book, a treasure trove of stories, images, and insights that brought the ancient trade routes to life. .Cent magazine

A richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 ce, highlighting how the movement of people, objects and ideas shaped cultures and histories.


The term Silk Road conjures a range of romantic images. Camel caravans crossing desert dunes. Merchants trading silk and spices. Far-flung commerce between East and West. The reality was far richer.

Focusing on a defining period between 500 and 1000 CE, this beautifully illustrated book reimagines the Silk Roads as a web of interlocking networks linking Asia, Africa and Europe, from Japan to Ireland, from the Arctic to Madagascar.

It tells a remarkable story of people, objects and ideas flowing in all directions, through the traces these journeys left behind including ceramics from Tang China recovered from a shipwreck in the Java Sea, sword-fittings set with Indian garnets buried in England, and a selection of letters and legal texts from a synagogue in Cairo revealing a Jewish communitys links from India to al-Andalus. Woven throughout, encounters with various peoples active on the Silk Roads, from seafarers to Sogdians, Aksumites and Vikings, reveal the human stories, innovations and transfers of knowledge that emerged, shaping cultures and histories across continents centuries before the formation of todays globalised world. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1860g
  • Dimensions: 240 x 270mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: British Museum Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780714124971

About Elisabeth R. OConnellLuk Yu-pingSue BrunningTim Williams

Sue Brunning is Curator European Early Medieval Collections in the Department of Britain Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum and co-curator of Silk Roads an exhibition opening in September 2024. Luk Yu-ping is Basil Gray Curator: Chinese Paintings Prints and Central Asian Collection in the Department of Asia at the British Museum and co-curator of Silk Roads an exhibition opening in September 2024. Elisabeth R. OConnell is Curator Byzantine World in the Departments of Britain Europe and Prehistory and Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum and co-curator of Silk Roads an exhibition opening in September 2024. Tim Williams is Emeritus Professor of Silk Roads Archaeology at University College London.

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