How connected was early Singapore to the region and the world?
Do you know how Silk Road begin?
Is it one single route or a network of trade routes?
What is the importance of the Silk Road?
What was exchange other than goods?
Why did travellors use the maritime route?
What is the most interesting thing about the video that captures your attention?
Watch the video below to find out more about different sources that tell us about Singapore's mysterious and mythical origins.
Early Singapura was busy and prosperous in the 13th and 14th century, but what happened after? The videos below give us some insight into this.
Learn about the two accounts of this event.
Learn why a historian of the 16th century calls Singapura a "tricky place to interrupt one's voyage" in the late 1300s to 1400s.