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Silk Roads
304 pages, Hardcover
Published October 8, 2024
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October 12, 2024From Nature magazines five best list, https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
"The first object discussed in this lavishly illustrated British Museum exhibition book reveals the far-ranging, mysterious nature of the Silk Roads. It is a Buddha figure, excavated in Sweden from a site dated to around ad 800, and probably created in Pakistan two centuries earlier. No one knows how it reached Europe or its significance there..."
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"The first object discussed in this lavishly illustrated British Museum exhibition book reveals the far-ranging, mysterious nature of the Silk Roads. It is a Buddha figure, excavated in Sweden from a site dated to around ad 800, and probably created in Pakistan two centuries earlier. No one knows how it reached Europe or its significance there..."
My kind of book!
October 11, 2024
It's beautifully illustrated and all very interesting but...This is no-one's idea of the Silk Roads. Can a sea route be a road? Sure these are all trade routes, but one crossing the Sahara? Not what I imagined as a Silk Road. This feels like what it is - a book to support an exhibition that itself needed memorable title to attract an audience.
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