Take a magic-carpet ride along the length of the most storied of ancient trade routes, the Silk Road, with Colin Thubron, one of the world's greatest living travel writers. Mr. Thubron describes his journey of some 7000 miles-by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, camel, and foot-out of the heart...
Published 08/08/11
Victor Mair is a Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the curatorial consultant and catalog editor for the "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibit.
The symposium "Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity" was...
Published 07/06/11
David W. Anthony, Professor of Anthropology and Anthropology Curator of the Yager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, presents "Horseback Riding and Bronze Age Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes" at the Penn Museum's symposium "Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New...
Published 06/21/11