Peter Frankopan is the author of ‘The Silk Roads: A New History of the World’ (Bloomsbury). He is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford.

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Gold belt plaque with a vulture mauling a yak and a tiger, (4th–2nd century BC), southern Siberia, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Photo: V. Terebinin; © The State Hermitage Museum

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