British Museum explores 'Silk Roads' trade routes in new exhibition

The Manila Times

British Museum explores 'Silk Roads' trade routes in new exhibition  A new exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week.  Showcasing a range of artefacts including Indian garnets found in Suffolk, England to a small Buddha figurine retrieved in Sweden, "Silk Roads" focuses specifically on the period AD 500 to 1,000, amid the rise of empires and religions.  On display are Chinese ceramics, Byzantine jewelry and the earliest known group of chess pieces among other ancient items. "Silk Roads" opens to the public on Thursday, September 26, and runs until February.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtenews #silkroad #london

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00:00This is an animal that carries goods.

00:09The three-colored sugar is also very interesting because it has a lot of interesting details.

00:16The camel is a very important transportation tool on the Silk Road.

00:27This exhibition is presenting a rather different vision of the Silk Road that some people might be expecting.

00:52So we are presenting it rather than a single trade route between East and West.

00:56We are showing the Silk Road as a series of overlapping networks that link communities across Asia, Africa and Europe.

01:06We're showing that those routes run in all directions, so North, South, not just East and West, all compass points.

01:11And we're showing that it was not just silk and spices and the things that we think about when we think about the Silk Road,

01:16but also people, objects and ideas moving sometimes great distances, not just by land but also by sea and river.

01:23And exchanges taking place in all contexts, including trade, but not limited to trade.

01:46The Silk Road has a very long history, but we've chosen a really interesting 500-year chapter in that long history between around 500 and 1000.

02:10And during this time there's a lot of activity along the Silk Road's networks.

02:14For example, we see various polities and empires rising and undertaking activities on a transcontinental scale.

02:21So, for example, Tang China in the East, but also the Carolingian Empire in the West.

02:25We see major religions, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam on the move, also across our map, reaching sometimes the extremities of the area that we're covering.

02:36And religion is one of the ways in which communities are connected to each other across sometimes really vast distances.

02:43We see migrations of peoples also across our map and we see commerce on a scale that surpasses what we've seen in previous periods.

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