The sacred art of the Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions stretches back more than two millennia to a time when these faiths—rooted in the same ancient texts—were intertwined. Their symbols—Laksmī, the radiant goddess of fortune and fertility, and Ganesha, the elephant-headed remover of obstacles—traveled eastward along the Silk Roads, from the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia. The British Museum brings together 180 objects—sculptures, paintings, drawings, manuscripts—to trace the origins of these sacred forms and the ways they have shifted, splintered, and endured. “This kind of imagery is now part of day-to-day life,” the show’s curator, Sushma Jansari, told The Art Newspaper. —Elena Clavarino