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The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism
The Sih-Rozag in Zoroastrianism: A Textual and Historico-Religious AnalysisAuthor:Enrico RaffaelliFocusing on the Avestan and Pahlavi versions of the Sih-rozag, a text worshipping Zoroastrian divine...
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The Blacks of Premodern China
The Blacks of Premodern Chinaby Don J. Wyatt208 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus.Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8 |Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0358-5 |A volume in the Encounters with Asia series View table...
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Byzantine Gold Coin Found in Tomb of Emperor Jiemin of Northern Wei
In November 2013 I posted this article:1,500-year-old Roman gold coin unearthed at Chinese tombThe coin found, like this one, is from the East Roman Empire era.Archaeologists conducting excavations at...
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Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State...
The Metropolitan Museum has an excellent Tab on her site under "Research", called MetPublications. Under this Tab are available a large collection of a.o. old exhibition catalogues, downloadable and/...
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Ancient Buddhist casket found in north China
From：Chinese Archaeology/ Xinhua, 4 July 2014A Jade casket containing relics of a prominent Buddhist has been found in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said on Thursday. A farmer...
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Buddha Bowl the real thing or not?
The first article appeared in the Times of India, July 3, 2014, the second one in The Hindu, June 8, 2014Buddha bowl the real thing: ASI reportThe Times of India by Krishnendu Bandyopadhyay, TNN |...
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Under the sands of time: Ancient Buddhist mound in Pakistan
Under the sands of time: Ancient Buddhist mound discovered in Sector E-11The Express tribune By Riazul HaqPublished: June 16, 2014The mound is located in Sector E-11, next to the Pakistan Medical...
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Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collection
Biblical and other Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan Collectionby Nicholas Sims- WilliamsBrepols Publishers247 p., 17 b/w ill., 210 x 297 mm, 2014ISBN: 978-2-503-55238-5Languages: English...
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Manichaean Texts in Syriac
Manichaean Texts in Syriac First Editions, New Editions and StudiesBy N. A. Pedersen, J. M. Larsen (eds.)X+396 p., 3 b/w ill. + 30 colour ill., 210 x 297 mm, 2013ISBN: 978-2-503-55025-1Languages:...
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Tang China in Multi-polar Asia
Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and Warby Wang ZhenpingSeries: World of East AsiaHardcover: 462 pagesPublisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr (November 30, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
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Murals found in Tang Dynasty tomb in Ningxia
For video, click HERELocated on the Silk Road, Guyuan County in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region used to be an important town along the trade route. Many cultural relics have been...
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Protecting the city ruins along the Silk Road
CNTV.com 11 July 2014 For a video, click HEREAs it's become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the protection of the Silk Road has become more urgent than ever. Among the 22 heritage sites on the...
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Protecting Silk Road heritage: the Bingling Temple Grottoes
CNTV.com 12 July 2014 For a video, click HERETime and nature are not the only challenges facing the sites along the ancient silk road. Human activity can be a threat too. The question is how to keep...
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Italian connection
From: The News on Sunday (Pakistan) June 29, 2014Ijlal Hussainpur June 29, 20144 CommentsAlmost six decades of close collaboration between scholars from Italy and Pakistan has resulted in the...
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Han relics on show in Musee Guimet, Paris
From: Ecns.cn 15 July 2014A silver tiger, found in Shenmu county, Shaanxi province, is believed to date back to between the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) and the Han Dynasty.[Photo provided to...
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The biggest ever exhibition of ancient Silk Road items is expected to go on...
National Museum of China (Xinhua/Chen Jianli)The National Museum of China (NMC) located on Chang'an Avenue, Dongcheng district, has been declared the third most popular museum in the world, the China...
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8 Silk Road monuments in Kazakhstan added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Photo courtesy of www.geopolitics.ruTengrinews.kz 15 July 2014UNESCO has added eight settlements of the Great Silk Road located at the territory of Kazakhstan onto its World Heritage List, Tengrinews...
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Mongol women: a miscellany, part 1
From: Amgalant.com by Bryn HammondA miscellany on Mongol women. My topic in part one is the state of our ignorance about them. It was Socrates who said – more or less – your first step towards...
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Book reviews John Man's The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the...
This is the review in the Spectator of 12 July 2014A review of The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China, by John Man. The Mongols made China, argues this book, which...
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Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of...
Archaeological and Visual Sources of Meditation in the Ancient Monasteries of Kučaby Angela F. Howard, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Giuseppe Vignato, Peking UniversityAuthor: Angela...
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