题 目：Silk Roads /  丝绸之路 大英博物馆同名展览《八方丝路：万里共风华》 图录

作 者：Sue Brunning、Luk Yu-ping、Elisabeth R. O'Connell、Tim Williams

出 版：The British Museum ,  2024

装 帧：精装，304页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：24*27 cm

大英博物馆主要展览丝绸之路的精装本。

《丝绸之路》是一本插图丰富的出版物，探索了从公元500年到1000年跨越欧亚大陆非洲的联系和交流网络，突出了人、物体和思想的运动如何塑造了文化和历史。

公元9世纪，一艘阿拉伯船只在印度尼西亚海岸沉没。在残骸中发现的物品，包括中国陶瓷和贵金属，为唐朝和伊斯兰阿巴斯王朝之间贸易的性质、规模和多样性提供了非凡的证据，这只是庞大而广泛的联系和交流网络的一个例子。

这本书挑战了“丝绸之路”作为东西方贸易简单历史的概念。本书聚焦于一系列重叠的地理区域，穿插对活跃在这些网络中的特定民族的案例研究——印度洋的海员、索格迪亚人、维京人、阿克苏米特人和安达卢斯人——它揭示了这些联系中出现的非凡的人类故事、创新和知识转移。每一部分都探讨了接触、联系和融合的显著例子，同时强调塑造它们的环境和历史条件，以最新的科学研究为特色。

令人眼花缭乱的物品包括一个木板，上面写着“丝绸公主”的故事，她从中国走私了蚕蛾的卵；约旦的狮子雕塑；日本的微型木塔；乌兹别克斯坦大使大厅的壁画；高加索地区的卡夫坦；西班牙的象牙十字架；和英国萨顿胡葬礼上的金色和石榴石剑鞘滑梯。

The hardback title accompanying the major British Museum exhibition Silk Roads.

Silk Roads is a richly illustrated publication that explores the networks of contacts and exchanges spanning Afro-Eurasia from 500 to 1000 CE, highlighting how the movement of people, objects and ideas shaped cultures and histories.

In the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in the wreckage, which include Chinese ceramics and precious metals, have provided extraordinary evidence of the nature, scale and diversity of trade between Tang China and the Islamic Abbasid dynasty, This is just one example of the sprawling and extensive networks of contacts and exchanges.

This book challenges the concept of the ‘Silk Roads’ as a simple history of trade between East and West. Focusing on a series of overlapping geographical zones, interspersed with case studies of particular peoples who were active along these networks – seafarers in the Indian Ocean, Sogdians, Vikings, Aksumites, and the peoples of al-Andalus – it reveals remarkable human stories, innovations and the transfer of knowledge that emerged from these connections. Each section explores notable examples of contacts, connections and integrations, while emphasising the environmental and historical conditions that shaped them, featuring the latest scientific research.

The dazzling range of objects includes a wooden panel with the story of the ‘silk princess’, who smuggled the eggs of the silk moth from China; a lion sculpture from Jordan; a miniature wooden pagoda from Japan; wall paintings from the Hall of Ambassadors in Uzbekistan; a kaftan from the Caucasus region; an ivory cross from Spain; and a gold and garnet scabbard slide from the Sutton Hoo burial in Britain.