"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 ...

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displaying the old art just as they once did. Home screen ads aren't exactly a rarity, of course, but Sony's implementation is a bit of a mess - not helped by the fact it seemingly can only be ...

Let us revisit her short-lived but eventful career on the occasion of her death anniversary. Vijayalakshmi, widely known by her screen name Silk Smitha, was born on December 2, 1960. Over an 18-year ...

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 ...