How the world's largest desert was a major medieval trade route
Biconical bead, Egypt or Syria (10th-11th century) Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.
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Article Author: How the world's largest desert was a major medieval trade route
Media Source: The Art Newspaper (UK)
Date: 23 January 2019
A new touring show and scholarly catalogue combat a common perception of the Sahara Desert as a wasteland or blank geography. In the Medieval era, the world’s largest desert was actually a robust trade route connected to Asia’s Silk Roads. Organised by the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University near Chicago, Illinois…
A new touring show and scholarly catalogue combat a common perception of the Sahara Desert as a wasteland or blank geography. In the Medieval era, the world’s largest desert was actually a robust trade route connected to Asia’s Silk Roads. Organised by the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University near Chicago, Illinois, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time is the first show of its kind to reveal how sumptuous artwork and decoration in gold, glass, ceramic and copper flowed through the region by horse and camel, assisted by the spread of Islam. The exhibition will travel to the Aga Khan Museum in September 2019.