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Past Masters heritage group defends throwing old Chinese coin into sand dune
ABC.net.au 22 August 2014By Xavier La CannaFri 22 Aug 2014, 5:23pmPHOTO: The old Chinese coin (inset) was found on a beach on remote Elcho Island. (Google Maps/ coin photo: Past Masters)RELATED STORY:...
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What historical secrets lie hidden within sunken ships around Japan?
From: The Yomiuri Shimbun August 25, 2014Surveying and exploring sunken ships on the seafloor off Japan’s coasts could reveal new historical facts and information. We think more efforts should be made...
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Excavations in the Bukhara Oasis, Uzbekistan
From: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/ New York Universityby Sören Stark — Aug 25, 20144th century CE tower during excavationISAW’s project investigating the Ancient and Medieval defense...
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Mighty Siberian hero warrior reveals his secrets from almost 1,000 years ago
From: The Siberian Times 25 August 2014By Ksenia LugovskayaFirst exclusive pictures inside the grave of 'giant' warlord horseman who held sway in the 11th century but lost his left arm in his final...
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The Lure of Gold and Iron: China and the Steppe in the First Millennium BC
From: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/ New York UniversityEighth Annual Leon Levy Lecture Sponsored by The Peter Jay Sharp FoundationAdd to Your Calendar:i.Calv.CalRSVP: isaw@nyu.edu06...
View ArticleMystery Along the Silk Road: The Discovery of the Black City of Khara Khoto
In this Therese Schoofs Memorial Lecture, Asian Art Museum Docent, Julia Verzhbinsky, discusses the discovery of the "black city" of Khara Khoto.January 10, 2014 Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Mummified by accident in copper masks almost 1,000 years ago: but who were they?
The Siberian Times By Kate Baklitskaya, Go East09 April 2014Academics restart work to unlock secrets of mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia on edge of the Siberian Arctic.A red-haired...
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Tattooed 2,500 year old Siberian princess 'to be reburied' (2)
The Siberian Times, 21 August 2014By Anna Liesowska21 August 2014Elders in Altai Mountains vote to reinter mummy of ancient woman 'to stop her anger which causes floods and earthquakes'.'Princess Ukok'...
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Stories untold: rediscovering Kargil’s forgotten past
Stories untold: rediscovering Kargil’s forgotten pastKashmirDispatch.com Saturday, 23 August 2014 Muzammil Hussain Munshi“If the place is not recognisedIt is from where the whole land is seen”-The...
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Archaeology at the border: survey and excavation in Xinjiang
Penn Museum BlogBy ANNIE CHAN | Published: JULY 21, 2014As far as archaeological fieldwork goes, there are certainly far less accommodating places than where I have fortunately found myself for three...
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Archaeology at the border: Survey and excavation in Xinjiang (continued)
From: Penn BlogBy ANNIE CHAN | Published: AUGUST 27, 2014As we approach the end of the field season, with 2 weeks remaining, the cold weather also begins to settle in. Since I last wrote, the grass...
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Por- Bajin: Fortress of Solitude
From: Archaeology.org November / December 2010Archaeologists excavate unique medieval ruins at the center of a Siberian lake(Copyright Por-Bajin Cultural Foundation)University of Reading...
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Silk Road explorers from Kazakhstan: Minarets of Xinjiang
From: Tengrinews.kz 30 August 2014The tomb of Abakh Khoja ©Vladimir ProkopenkoThe expedition from Kazakhstan Following Shoqan Walikhanov’s Caravan Routehas immersed itself into the spiritual life of...
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Swat Museum gets ready to re-open 6 years after militant attack
In the years since the Swat Taliban militants were defeated, various aspects of tourism and culture have been returning to the once-volatile area.Centralasiaonline.comBy Nazar ul Islam2014-08-29SWAT –...
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Royal bronze chariot found after 3,000 years
China daily 1 September 2014 By Ma Lie in Xi'anA bronze chariot made during the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC) has been found in Qishan county, Shaanxi province - and archaeologists...
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Silk Relics Cleaned and Studied in Milan
Archaeology Magazine Tuesday, September 02, 2014(Photo © Jochen Schaal-Reichert)BONN, GERMANY—Archaeologist Sabine Schrenk of the University of Bonn, and Cologne textile restorer Ulrike Reichert, are...
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In Pakistan, imposing tombs that few have seen
BBC Travel, 8 August 2014Covering more than 10sqkm, Makli is one of the world’s largest necropolises, acting as the final resting place of more than half a million people, including kings, queens,...
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The Kumtura Grottoes in Kucha, Xinjiang Autonomous Region
The Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves (Chinese: 库木吐喇千佛洞; pinyin: Kùmùtǔlǎ Qiānfódòng) (also Qumtura) is a Buddhist cave temple site in the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. The site is located some 25...
View ArticleUn drone explore le site archéologique de Mes Aynak
Un drone explore le site archéologique de Mes...by Futura-SciencesFutura-Sciences.com 16 April 2014Sur le site de Mes Aynak, en Afghanistan, qui sera détruit l'an prochain, l'équipe d'Iconem procède à...
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Archaeologist 'digs' using drone for fieldwork in Armenia
An aerial view of excavations of the West Settlement at the base of the Tsaghkahovit Fortress in Armenia. (Photo provided by Project ArAGATS) Purdue University 2 September 2014WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A...
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