Introduction to the Silk Road by Nancy Steinhardt

Penn Museum's 2010-2011 monthly lecture/reception series explores all the adventures the Silk Road has to offer, from mummies to Marco Polo to military warfare to the Black Death. In this first program, "Great Sites on the Silk Road," Dr. Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art and the Museum's Curator of Chinese Art, will introduce the Silk Road in relation to the exhibition Secrets of the Silk Road opening February 5, showing some routes, early travelers, major sites, key monuments, and some most extraordinary discoveries.

Find out more about the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition at http://www.penn.museum/silkroad

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Education

Tags:

• silk road
• china
• mummies
• mummy
• xinjiang
• uighur
• archaeology

[DrTrevorbo]

wow sound is the most impotent part and its cut every little bit bull shit

[imuaaa]

Loses sound periodically. Something wrong with the video. Irritating. Not worth watching.

[ThinkingGorgon]

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