The British Museum is hosting a major exhibition that will expand the concept of the Silk Road beyond a trade route between East and West. Silk Roads will show how there were multiple overlapping networks linking different communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, including from Japan to Britain and Scandinavia to Madagascar. The exhibition, split into five different geographical zones, will feature over 300 objects, like Indian garnets found in Suffolk, wall paintings from Uzbekistan, and the oldest group of chess pieces ever found, and will explore how the movement of people and objects along these routes shaped cultures and histories.