The peoples who traded on the Silk Road have left us many wonderful
works of art. But it is often the mundane objects that tell us
most about the lives of the people, their beliefs, their concerns – and
even how they spent their free time.
This is a story of real people.
On this website you can examine five illustrated themes:
If you would like to study the legacy of the Silk Road cultures
in greater depth, visit the International
Dunhuang Project (IDP). IDP is a ground-breaking collaboration
to make more than 100,000
manuscripts, paintings and artefacts from Silk Road sites available
on the Internet with top-quality images.
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