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Masterpieces of Tibetan and Nepalese Art
Buddha Sakyamuni, 12th–13th century. Central Tibet. Brass with color pigments. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Oscar L. Tang, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang and...
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Of art and ownership: A Gandhara tug of war
By Qaiser ButtPublished: January 8, 2014Share this articlePrint this pageEmailThis statue is currently on display at Lahore Museum. PHOTO COURTESY: CREATIVE COMMONSISLAMABAD: Thousands of intricate...
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Zheng He Conference in Victoria, Australia
Zheng He's Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China's Relations with the Indian Ocean World from AntiquityAugust 22, 2014 - 9:00am - August 24, 2014 - 5:00pmUniversity of VictoriaVictoria BCEighty-seven...
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IDP and Seishi Karashima and Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
A Few of Our Favourite Things: #9 Seishi KarashimaFRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014As part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of our friends and supporters to select their favourite item...
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Exhibition Rarely-seen Treasures from the Ming Dynasty in the British Museum
British Museum's new blockbuster exhibition to feature rarely-seen treasures from the Ming Dynasty that reveal how China became a superpower in the 15th CenturyShow in London will focus on how China...
View ArticleDunhuang at The Bibliotheque Nationale (Richelieu)
BL Asian and African @BLAsia_Africa30mReally useful site reviewing and summarising recent theses at http://ow.ly/ssgyc OpenenDissertation ReviewsFounded in 2010, Dissertation Reviews is a new site...
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Archaeological findings along the Silk Road
CCTV 8 january 2014Watch VideoPlay VideoThe Silk Road used to be a crucial link between China and the rest of the world. A number of new archaeological discoveries have recently been made along this...
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Buddhist relics in Jingchuan County
CCTV 24 December 2013Watch VideoPlay VideoThe famous Silk Road was a major link between China and the rest of the world for over one thousand five hundred years. And findings continue to surface in...
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Archaeological study in the South China Sea: exploring the 'Maritime Silk Road'
People's Daily Online January 7, 2014Archaeologist Li Jilong said: “Every time I dive to the sea floor, it will occur to me that hundreds of years ago, ancient merchant ships, fully loaded with goods,...
View ArticleAurel Stein: A Hundred years on
AUREL STEIN: A HUNDRED YEARS ONINTRODUCTIONThe Silk Road has become a popular name for the network of long-distance land and maritime trade routes that connected Europe, Africa and Asia from the end of...
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Jiaohe: A window to the past
CCTV January 11, 2014Watch VideoPlay VideoSpeaking of political and cultural significance, the Silk Road has been in the spotlight since its application to UNESCO last year to become a world cultural...
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Qigexing Temple ruins along silk road reveal Buddhism’s past in China
CCTV.com January 13, 2014Watch VideoPlay VideoSince 2012, archaeologists have been working on a two-year project at the Qigexing Temple ruins in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. As an important...
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Statues & murals well preserved at Beiting ancient town, Xinjiang
CCTV.com January 13, 2014Watch VideoPlay VideoArcheologists are hard at work in a historical town there, busy preserving some important cultural relics. Beiting is more commonly known as the "worn-out...
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12-14 February: Conference Chinese Buddhism in Leiden
Book presentation and opening lectureProgramme and registrationReceptionVenuesThe study of Chinese Buddhism has made considerable progress since 1959, when Leiden professor Erik Zürcher published his...
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Toxic Wine Might Have Killed Alexander the Great
Photo: Alexander the Great is depicted in a third century B.C. statue at Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Credit: Giovanni Dall’Orto/Wikimedia CommonsFrom: NewsDiscovery.com Jan 14, 2014By Rosella...
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The excavation of “Fuhe culture” site in Inner Mongolia reveals 5000-year-old...
From：Chinese Archaeology Writer： Date：2014-01-14In order to figure out the preservation state of Fuhegoumen site in Bairin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia after which Fuhe culture is named, a small scale...
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IDP and Helen Persson
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2014A Few of our Favourite Things: #11 Helen PerssonAs part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of our friends and supporters to select their favourite item...
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Early Silk road map from the Ming Dynasty
By Han Bingbin (China Daily)13:18, April 27, 2013 The Mongolia Mountain and Water Map has 211 places marked from Ming Dynasty's frontier Jiayuguan Pass westward to Mecca of Saudi Arabia. (China...
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More news about the Silk Road Exhibition hermitage Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Leidse archeologen betrokken bij Zijderoute-tentoonstelling HermitageMogelijkheden stage en onderzoekreis voor Leidse studentenTentoonstellingVanaf 1 maart 2014 staat de Hermitage Amsterdam geheel en...
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Seidenstraße: Türen in Kucha, Xinjiang
From: Bambooblog Hamburg 22 Januar 2014Seidenstraße: Türen in Kucha, XinjiangKucha ist eine alte Stadt an der Seidenstraße am Rande der Taklamakan-Wüste. In der Altstadt haben mich besonders die...
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