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Peace between empires

Exhibition March 18 − June 23, 2019
Metropolitan Museum presents an exhibition "Peace between empires: art and identity in the ancient Middle East".

For more than three centuries, the territories and trade routes of the Middle East have been disputed between the Roman and Parthian empires (about 100 BC - 250 AD), but life in the region was not determined only by these two superpowers.

This exhibition, representing 190 works from museums in the Middle East, Europe and the United States, helps to make a virtual journey through the ancient trade routes of spices, incense and silks that connected cities in the south-west of Arabia, in Nabatey, Judea, Syria and Mesopotamia , turning the region into a center of world trade.

Some of the archaeological sites presented, including Palmyra, Dura-Evropos and Hatra, have been damaged in recent years by deliberate destruction and looting, and the exhibition also explores these events and responses to them.

Based on the materials of the official site Metropolitan Museum.