Saturday, October 31, 2026
Due to planned protests in Paris, access to the Musée du Louvre will be restricted on Saturday 31 October 2026.
Only visitors with a valid museum ticket will be able to enter the museum through the Cour Napoléon, via the Pyramid or the Passage Richelieu entrances.
On the Roads of Medieval Karakum (Turkmenistan)
Exploring prosperity and fragility in desert trading networks
Thursday 12 November 2026
On the Roads of Medieval Karakum (Turkmenistan)
Exploring prosperity and fragility in desert trading networks
Thursday 12 November 2026
by Paul Wordsworth, University College London, and Martina Rugiadi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (pending confirmation).
The relation between the Silk Road and the cities of Merv, Bukhara and Samarkand – major stops along the network – has long been described as symbiotic, but what of the smaller towns and outposts dotted throughout the desert?
Excavations in Dandanakan/Das Rabat in the Karakum region seek to explore these interconnections.