Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk ... A bolt of silk and ceramic statues of horses and a Bactrian camel ...

one of the three curators of the forthcoming exhibition of the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum points out, it really could have been called that, or the Amber Route, or indeed after ...

But a trip to the Silk Roads exhibition at London’s British Museum showed me how little I knew. There were camels (pictured above), but far from being one road, there was a network of routes ...

Horses were key for facilitating trade. Image by Tim Sandle Visiting the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum. Image by Tim Sandle. The Silk Road (or, more accurately, ‘roads’ or ...