For a few weeks only: British Museum displays a fragile 1,500 year old Chinese scroll

A large but also very fragile document that can only be seen for a few weeks each year will be displayed next week at the British Museum.The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is a Chinese scroll thought to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, such document in the world, and it is around 1,500 years old. The one in the museum is probably a copy of an earlier scroll, and they think it was composed to reprimand Empress Jia and provide advice to the women in the imperial court.