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New discovery of nomad’s secret history
New discovery of nomad’s secret historyFrom the site of the G. Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaIn this room you can find exhibits from an escavation carried out recently during which a 7-8th...
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IDP and Fan Jinshi
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014A Few of Our Favourite Things: #12 Fan JinshiAs 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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Les Maîtres des Caravanes
Beautiful DVD from 2004, originally in Japanese with an English voice-over about the SogdiansDirectors: Patrick CABOUAT, Noriaki HASHIMOTO/ Writer: Alain MOREAUAfter a perilous trek of some 11 000...
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Excavating a Silk Road City: the Medieval Citadel of Taraz, Kazakhstan
An article from Giles Dawkes published in October 2013 in Archaeology International JournalAbstractThe city of Taraz, located near the southern border with Uzbekistan, is one of the most significant...
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Understanding Buddhist Art : Buddhism and Trade on the Eastern Silk Road
February 8, 2014 Stanford Annenberg Auditorium 1.00- 4.00 PMJoin Susan Whitfield, historian of medieval China, as she introduces the discovery of the rich Buddhist remains of the Eastern Silk Road—the...
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IDP and Stephan F. Teiser
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014A Few of Our Favourite Things: #13 Stephen F. TeiserAs part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of our friends and supporters to select their favourite...
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IDP/ Article by Susan Whitfield
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2014The Chinese New Year Almanac and an Early Publication OrdinanceOr.8210/P.12This is one of my favourite items among the manuscripts found at Dunhuang even though only a small...
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A Garland of Ragas
From: BibliOdyssey"This is an album (muraqqaʿ) compiled in the late 13th century AH / 19th CE, or possibly later. It contains nineteen Deccani paintings and four pages of shikastah calligraphy, one...
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Zheng He Conference
ZHENG HE'S MARITIME VOYAGES (1405-1433) AND CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD FROM ANTIQUITYZHENG HE CONFERENCECentre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of VictoriaVictoria, British...
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Reconstruction Bamiyan Buddhas stopped
Unesco stops unauthorised reconstruction of Bamiyan BuddhasOrganisation says actions of German archaeologists who have partially rebuilt one of the statues “border on the criminal”By Alessandro Martini...
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Silk Road Lecture Series in Los Angeles
Lectures “Recipes on the Road: Food Ideas Traveled Too”by Charles PerryThursday, February 13, 2014Doors open at 6:30pm, Lecture 7-8pmThere was no market for recipes on the Silk Road, but food ideas did...
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Prague, Feb 4 (CTK) - Czech National Museum head Michal Lukes Tuesday received from President Milos Zeman a memorandum with the Afghan Culture Ministry, under which an exhibition of Buddhist artefacts...
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The last Mongols of Yunnan
This article was posted by Jim Goodman in Travel and published January 9, 2014Tonghai County (通海县) in central Yunnan has a number of attractions that make it worthy of an excursion from Kunming, just...
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Indian Ocean's Oldest Shipwreck Set for Excavation
The oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has been sitting on the seafloor off the southern coast of Sri Lanka for some 2,000 years. In just a couple of weeks, scuba-diving archaeologists will...
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Almaty family makes preserving national treasures their life's work
Source: Tengrinews.kz15.01.2014Hal Fosterex-Los Angeles Times journalist, journalism professorAnyone who has seen a reproduction of the glittering armor of Kazakhstan's Golden Man has marveled at its...
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IDP and Nicholas Sims- Williams
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014A Few of Our Favourite Things: #14 Nicholas Sims-WilliamsAs part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of our friends and supporters to select their...
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New Discoveries of Andronovo Culture Remains In Nilka, Xinjiang
From：Chinese Archaeology Writer： Date：2014-02-07Wealth of Andronovo culture remains, including 17 tombs and 3 ritual sites was recently recovered in Nilka county, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...
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Neelie Kroes opens Silk Road exhibition Hermitage Amsterdam
Door Historiekdinsdag 4 februari 2014Bodhisattva – Turfan, Xinjiang, Bezeklik, 11de eeuw (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)Eurocommissaris Neelie Kroes opent eind deze maand een grote...
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Lost Kingdoms
Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th CenturyApril 14–July 27, 2014 Metropolitan Museum, New YorkAccompanied by a catalogueBuddha (detail). Central Thailand, 1st half 7th...
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Chinese- Iranian Relations XIV
The Influence of Eastern Iranian ArtFrom: Encyclopedia IranicaAspects of the artistic taste in personal adornment of these and other similar nomadic tribal confederations of northeast Asia, often...
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