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The Silk Road International Arts Festival, with its diverse range of performances and artistic expressions, demonstrates art's ability to bring people together across cultures and borders.

"Silk Roads" at The British Museum, however, is just such an event. This ambitious show explores the myriad ways in which "Asia, Europe and North Africa shared their cultures more than a ...

Museums are continually searching for ancient counterparts to contemporary phenomena, and the British Museum’s new show Silk Roads appears to be just that: an exploration of the ancient ...

There are a few techniques that can be used to get bone-straight hair, but one that continues to stand the test of time is the silk press. A silk press is a hair straightening technique used ...

Visitors admire works in the "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" art exhibition on Friday [Meng Tao / Xinhua] WELLINGTON -- The "Silk Road Artists' Rendezvous" art exhibition, featuring 63 works ...

How did it end up there? The clue’s in the show’s title: via a network of trading routes that scholars used to call the “Silk Road”. If that phrase evokes exotic images of Marco Polo and ...

Silk Roads is about lots more than silk. John Masefield summed up the allure of trade with the east in his poem Cargoes: “Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,/Rowing home to haven in sunny ...

Silk Roads, which opens at the British Museum next week and brings together an extraordinary group of images, artefacts and objects that reveal the interconnections that held much of the world ...

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