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Over the last 40 years, archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have unearthed astonishing artifacts from the peninsula, radically changing our understanding of the region's ancient past. The Asian Art Museum's new exhibition Roads of Arabia features some of these eye-opening discoveries, like giant human statues, stone tools, Greco-Roman bronzes, gold jewelry and pages from early Qur'ans.

Beginning with some of the earliest evidence of humankind, Roads of Arabia goes on to explore the historical and cultural development of Arabia. Tracing incense trade routes and early-Islamic pilgrimage roads that once spanned the peninsula, the exhibition provides insight into interactions that occurred between Arabia and its diverse neighbors.

More than 200 artworks illustrate a lively commercial and cultural exchange among civilizations from antiquity through the early centuries of Islam. See what you'll dig up in Roads of Arabia at the Asian Art Museum, the final U.S. venue for this exhibition.

Roads of Arabia
Through January 18
Asian Art Museum
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