Have you ever wondered about the intricate tapestry of history woven through the delicate threads of silk? From ancient ...

Silk Roads demonstrates there’s plenty of ... to mercenaries out to make their fortune fighting with the Byzantine army in Syria, and being buried in magnificence with their souvenirs.” ...

“It’s unique,” Sue Brunning, one of three who collaborated on Silk Roads, tells me. While her own area is early medieval Europe, she worked with Chinese and Byzantine curators, “trying to ...