A groundbreaking exhibition featuring relics from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region opened in Pennsylvania University Museum on Friday. On display are a great number of items unearthed along the famed Silk Road. The exhibits appeal to countless numbers of American visitors.

The exhibition showcases 135 excavated cultural relics from Xinjiang. It provides a window on all aspects of the people and cultures of the Silk Road during its early period, reflecting different characteristics of agricultural and nomadic customs throughout ages.

All the exhibits are kept intact, including silk works, ancient coins, artifacts and mummies, some of the earliest of which date back 4-thousand years.

The Silk Road got its name as the vast amounts of silk and other merchandise like spices and precious tones, which used to be carried back and forth from eastern Asia to major Mediterranean cities in the west.

The Silk Road was established centuries ago to meet the growing needs of both financial and cultural exchanges among different civilizations.

And today the road linking the West and the East continue to send out messages at exhibitions, celebrating the communication and cultural fusion of peoples.