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9 fascinating exhibits from 'Expedition Silk Road' at the Hermitage Amsterdam
Expedition Silk RoadAPOLLO STAFFThis new exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam presents treasures from the collection including murals, sculpture, precious silks and much more. Apollo picks some of the...
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Mr Selden’s Map of China by Timothy Brook
Review by Rana Mitter on a map that reveals an extraordinary chapter in Chinese historyA detail of the Ming dynasty map of Chinese trading routes detailed in 'Mr Selden's Map of China' Photo: Bodleian...
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IDP and Dan Waugh
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014A Few of Our Favourite Things: #18 Dan WaughAs part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of our friends and supporters to select their favourite item from...
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US returns Tang Dynasty stone coffin to China
CCTV 7 March 2014Watch VideoPlay VideoThe US has returned an ancient stone coffin from the Tang Dynasty to China, under the China-US memorandum. It marks the culmination of a four-year investigation,...
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Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India through their coins
Athens- Macedonian News Agency, 5 March 2014File photo from an earlier collaboration of the National Archaeological Museum, the Numismatic Museum and the Alpha Bank collection, at the Numismatic...
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The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination
The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and ImaginationEdited by Sarah StewartSeries: International Library of Historical StudiesHardcover: 272 pagesPublisher: I. B. Tauris (December 18,...
View ArticleLahore Museum (for a.o. Gandhara Art)
For a virtual visit to the Lahore Museum, click HERE
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Warm, wet weather may have helped Genghis Khan rule
Source: Sciencenews.orgWet, mild weather — not drought — may have helped Genghis Khan expand the Mongolian empire to the largest in human history.Rings in trees in the mountains of central Mongolia...
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Islamic Astronomy in Medieval China
BY MEDIEVALISTS.NET – SEPTEMBER 15, 2013Islamic Astronomy in Medieval ChinaBy Ortrun HuberInsight LMU, Issue 2 (2010)Abstract: The idea of a “scientific community” is generally thought to have arisen...
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Warm, wet weather may have helped Genghis Khan rule (2)
Yesterday I posted this news item that swarmed the internet:Warm, wet weather may have helped Genghis Khan ruleIt is however certainly not the first news about Genghis Khan and the climate.Read the...
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1,500-year-old coffin excavated from grassland in N China
China Daily, March 7, 2014An archaeologist checks an unearthed coffin at Xilin Gol league museum in Xilin Hot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomousregion, March 7. A 1,500-year-old coffin, excavated...
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IDP and John Falconer
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2014A Few of our Favourite Things: #19 John FalconerJohn Falconer at Karadong, November 2011. Photo 1187/2(368).As part of IDP's 20th anniversary celebrations we have asked twenty of...
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Ancient Prescriptions From Tibet
March 13, 2014Instructions on setting bones, in an exhibition on Tibetan medicine at the Rubin Museum of Art.CreditArnold Lieberman CollectionContinue reading the main storyThe New York Times,...
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The Conservation of Cave 85 at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang
The Conservation of Cave 85 at the Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang: A Collective Project of the getty Conservation Institute and the Dunhuang AcademyEdited by Lori Wong and Neville Agnew The Mogao Grottoes, a...
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Mongolian and Chinese gang of antique smugglers caught in the act
UB Post News 27 february 2014 By M.ZOLJARGALEarly this week, Border Intelligence Division (BID) officials of the General Authority for Border Protection caught a Mongolian woman at Zamyn-Uud soum auto...
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Lectures and Reception: ‘Silk on the Silk Road’
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014IDP 20 Event: Public Lectures and ReceptionTo celebrate IDP’s 20th anniversary we have been organising a series of events and activities. Full details can be found on our...
View ArticleThe Mongol Invasion of Ancient Rus'
The heroic resistance of the Russian soldiers and local villagers against the Mongol invaders in the winter 1237-38 period showed that although they had superior forces and the Slavs were fragmented,...
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Secrets of Chinese Terra-Cotta Warrior Weapons Revealed
Livescience.com by Tia Ghose, Staff Writer March 11, 2014 About 8,000 Terracotta Warriors were buried in three pits less than a mile to the northeast of the mausoleum of the First Emperor of...
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Bodleian's Selden Map on display in Hong Kong
Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford 20 March 2014Bodleian Libraries’ Selden Map will be the highlight of a public exhibition at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.This special exhibition,...
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Mapping Ming China’s Maritime World – The Selden Map and Other Treasures from...
Mapping Ming China’s Maritime World – The Selden Map and Other Treasures from the University of Oxford21 March - 23 June 2014This exhibition presents the early 17th century maritime heritage of the...
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