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Pollution and China's Yungang Grottoes
Outlasting Dynasties, Now Emerging From SootSource: The New York Times By EDWARD WONGMAY 17, 2014Continue reading the main storyVideoPLAY VIDEO|3:10A Restoration PuzzleA Restoration PuzzleIn China’s...
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An Avestan manuscript with Gujarati translation
From: Language Log by Victor Mair 18 May 2014In late January, the Asian and African studies blog of the British Library announced that, after "two years' work in an ongoing project sponsored by the...
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China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan seek UN World Heritage status for ancient Silk...
A major cultural initiative is underway. China is working closely with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to seek United Nations World Heritage status for the ancient silk road. The result of the project will...
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Valerie Hansen- The silk Road- a New History
Valerie Hansen Redefines Silk RoadPutative route of the “Silk Road” in the 1st century BC.April 4, 2013During a talk entitled, “The Silk Road: A New History,” Valerie Hansen, a professor of history at...
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Digital Access to Persian Manuscripts
From: Asian and African Studies Blog by Ursula Sims- Williams(Click here to go straight to list of digitised manuscripts)From the pocket encyclopaedia (Add.27261), with its exquisite miniature...
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The Oldenburg Conference - September 2013- St Petersburg
The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Oldenberg (1863–1934) was celebrated with a conference held at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg,...
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Engraved tablet found in one of Dazu Rock Carvings
Source: CCTV.com 21 May 2014It's a rare treat when a treasure can be found within a treasure. That's exactly what happened when archaeologists uncovered a hidden gem, buried deep inside a...
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3D printing replica of Thousand Hand Bodhisattva
Source: CCTV.com 21 May 201For a video about this story, click HEREBeing several centuries old, the priceless statues at the Dazu Rock Carvings have battered the ravages of time with varying degress...
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The latest news about the Nanhai No.1
China Daily 21 May 2014GUANGZHOU - With the excavation of the wreck of an ancient Chinese merchant ship, archaeologists expect to find a trove of historical relics, unveiling more details of the...
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Full coverage: 4th CICA Summit in ShanghaiCCTV.com 22 May 2014To celebrate the CICA summit in Shanghai, the China Art Museum is exhibiting thousands of artifacts, pictures and documents all relating...
View ArticleHistory of the Silk Road by "The French Whisperer"
If you want to fall asleep while listening to and relaxing on the ancient Silk Road, watch and listen to the French Whisperer on "History of the Silk Road"
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Buddhism and Trade on the Eastern Silk Road
Susan WhitfieldBritish LibrarySusan gave a lecture at Stanford University on February 8 , 2014 of over 2 hours (that's pretty long).Interested to watch, click HEREDateSat Feb-8-2014, 1:00pm -...
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Russian Expeditions to Central Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century
Russian Expeditions to Central Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century [Российские экспедиции в Центральную Азию в конце XIX — начале XX века]. Collected articles. Edited by I.F. Popova. St Petersburg,...
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8 June 2014: Buddhism on the Silk Routes
As a part of the exhibition in the Hermitage in Amsterdam " Expedition Silk Road" Jonathan Silk will give a lecture on "Buddhism on the Silk Routes" on June 8, 2014Time14.00-15.00 hrsVenueHermitage...
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What is the Oldest Book in the World?
From: MedievalfragmentsPosted on December 20, 2013by medievalfragmentsBy Erik Kwakkel (@erik_kwakkel)The past few days I have been preoccupied with a deceptively simple question: “What is the oldest...
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Scythian burial mounds to be opened for public
Fighting to save ancestral bones: Scythian burial mounds to be opened for publicTengri news.kz Thursday, 27.03.2014NextPrev1/2Reconstructed version of Scythian tomb. Photo © Yaroslav...
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Peter Hopkirk- Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
This book is my personal favouriteThe Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory,...
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Liaoning museum hosts Hongshan culture exhibit
For the video about this subject, please click HERELiaoning Province in the northeast, was home to the advanced Hongshan culture, whose achievements lie buried under the soil across countless sites....
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Unique Silk Cloth Found in Emperor Henry VII's Coffin
The emperor’s bones were wrapped in a silk cloth on which lay a crown, a scepter and an orb, all made in gilded silver. The most unexpected find was a large, magnificent silk cloth. Once unwrapped, the...
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Hidden Paintings Revealed at Ancient Temple of Angkor Wat
LiveScience.com By Megan Gannon, News Editor | May 27, 2014 08:02pm ET1199 113 836Submit318RedditA technique called decorrelation stretch analysis, which exaggerates subtle color differences,...
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