Silk Roads review – mesmerising show turns world history upside down

British Museum, London
Following China’s epic ancient trade routes through fabulous oases, desert palaces and burial mounds will radically change the way you feel about bordersNot many exhibitions turn the history of the world upside down. The British Museum’s mesmerising Silk Roads does, by showing how Asia, Europe and north Africa shared their cultures more than a millennium ago. Far from developing in isolation, let alone in a “clash of civilisations”, east and west we