Tag Archives: Silk Road

New Book: Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Susan Whitfield

CONTENTS EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION There was no ‘Silk Road’. It is a modern label in widespread use only since the late 20th century and used since then to refer to trade and interaction across Afro-Eurasia from roughly 200 BE to … Continue reading →

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Lost in the Desert: Stein at Dura-Europos

Posted on April 24, 2019 by Susan Whitfield

Aurel Stein at Dura-Europos, 1929. The British Library, Photo 392/42* Over the winter of 1928-9, the city of Dura-Europos on the Euphrates was being excavated by a team led by Maurice Pillet (1881-1964), which included a Yale academic, Clark Hopkins … Continue reading →

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Silk Road Summer School

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Susan Whitfield

4-day Silk Road course in central London Continue reading →

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Early Exhibitions of the Collections of Aurel Stein: Part 2: 1911: The Festival of Empire

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Susan Whitfield

The Festival of Empire opened at the Crystal Palace in north London on 12 May 1911 to celebrate the coronation of George V (r. 1910–1936). The Indian pavilion was one among the many exhibition spaces built to celebrate British imperial … Continue reading →

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Slaves on the Silk Road

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Susan Whitfield

Slaves, like silks, were Silk Road goods, to be bought, used and sold for profit, and often transported long distances by land and sea to trade in foreign markets. While no slaves from this time survive to tell their story … Continue reading →

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The Mozac Hunter Silk

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Susan Whitfield

Although several scholars have tried to displace silk from its key role in trade assumed by the term Silk Road and have argued for the equal if not greater influence of other goods, the importance of silk is not so … Continue reading →

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Early Exhibitions of the Collections of Aurel Stein: Part 1: 1910

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Susan Whitfield

his is the first of a series of posts to list twentieth century exhibitions which have included Central Asian manuscripts, paintings, coins and other artefacts from the collections of the archaeologist M. Aurel Stein (1862–1943). Continue reading →

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