Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road by Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout

On May 4, 2011 at the Penn Museum a lecture in the series Great Adventures along the Silk Road:
Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road by Dr. Robert G. Ousterhout
Medieval Constantinople was the greatest emporium of the eastern Mediterranean, where East and West came together. After a brief overview of the Byzantine capital, the talk will chart the routes merchants took traveling eastward from Constantinople, as well as the cities, sites, and landscapes they passed along the way. It will also examine the luxury goods and exotic commodities they brought back with them.