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    Ticket sale starts for ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ at the Penn Museum – Exhibition Preview

    Tickets go on sale today for “Secrets of the Silk Road” a landmark exhibition from China making its only East Coast stop at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) in Philadelphia February 5 through June 5, 2011. The exhibition aims to reflect the wide extent of the Silk Road trade and cultural interchange (see some of the highlights in this slideshow). Despite of what its name suggests, the Silk Road isn’t one single route. Rather, it is an extensive interconnected network of maritime and overland trade routes extending from Southern Europe through The Arabian Peninsula,…

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    Secrets of the Silk Road (Houston)

    The Houston Museum of Natural Science will be continuing the “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibit currently being held at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California. From August 27 to January 2 2011, visitors of the Houston Museum of Natural Science will be able to view the exhibit, which includes three Tarim mummies. 150 ancient artifacts from institutions in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region will also be on display as well, reavling surprising details about the people who lived along the ancient Silk Road. The display of the Tarim mummies marks the first time they have been shown in America.…