The lush Turfan section of the American Museum of Natural History's exhibition "Traveling the Silk Road" transports visitors to a re-created night market in this desert city overflowing with all the goods—sapphires, silks, jades and rubies, leopard furs and peacock feathers, and fruits and spices—that would have captivated travelers over a thousand years ago.
Turfan (also spelled Turpan) was another important node on the Silk Road: it lies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Further Information
- Traveling the Silk Road, Official Exhibition webpage at the AMNH
- Along the Silk Road, background
- History of horses
- Domestication of pomegranates
