The Silk Road is the ancient trade route passing from the shores
of the Mediterranean through Bukhara and Samarkand to Dunhuang
and on to Xian in central China.
Silks, spices and perfumes, precious gems such as amber and coral,
and all manner of commodities travelled along this route. But the
Silk Road also transported cultural influences - knowledge and
ideas, customs and religions, art and science.
During four major expeditions on the Eastern Silk Road between
1900 and 1930, Stein journeyed across the area between the Pamirs
and China several times, discovering tens of thousands of manuscripts,
paintings and artefacts dating from the second century BC to the
15th century AD.
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