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Photographs from the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet
In the city bazaar, Lhasa, September 1904.Neg 1083/14(428), (c) The British Library.In 1904, the British government in India sent an army into Tibet to force the Dalai Lama to open trade relations with...
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Tomb Raider Chronicles
Looting reaches across the centuries—and modern China’s economic strataBy LAUREN HILGERSMonday, June 10, 2013From: ArchaeologyA publication of the Archaeological Institute of America(Courtesy Lauren...
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The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
By Virgil Ciocîltan. Translated by Samuel WillcocksThe inclusion of the Black Sea basin into the long-distance trade network – with its two axes of the Silk Road through the Golden Horde...
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Sogdian and New Persian manuscripts in Syriac script
Mitteliranische Handschriften: Teil 4. Iranian Manuscripts in Syriac Script in the Berlin Turfan Collection (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland)Nicholas Sims-Williams...
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IDP News 41 now available online
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013IDP News 41 now available onlineIssue 41 of IDP News is now available to read online and download. Articles include a report of the IDP Conference held in November 2012 on the...
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Archaeology of the Southern Taklamakan
International ConferenceArchaeology of the Southern Taklamakan: Hedin and Stein’s Legacy and New ExplorationsIDP, The British Library and SOAS8th-10th November, 2012Organised with the Xinjiang...
View ArticleThrough Asia in the Footsteps of Sven Hedin
http://svenhedin.comTHE SVEN HEDIN PROJECTWith the help of the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin’s diaries, maps and photos, we will conduct a series of expeditions in his footsteps. It will be a journey...
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The Cloth of Gold
Cleveland Museum of Art's new textile gallery surveys riches from Mongol booty to treasures of Ottoman caliphs1 / 7PrintBy Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer Follow on Twitteron June 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM,...
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Buddha sculptures found in northern Bangladesh
Posted by TANNArchaeoHeritage, Archaeology, Asia, Bangladesh, Breakingnews, South Asia1:00 PMSeveral bronze-made Gautama Buddha sculptures and some other artifacts, including an ancient brick-built...
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The Reception of Greek and Roman Culture in East Asia
The Reception of Greek and Roman Culture in East Asia: Texts & Artefacts, Institutions & PracticesSkip to contentThursday, 4 July 2013 – Saturday, 6 July 2013, BerlinThis conference sits...
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Wooden leg from the Tarim Basin (Turfan)
ARCHÉOLOGIESource: Pourlascience.frLa plus vieille jambe de boisUne jambe de bois de qualité étonnante a été retrouvée dans une tombe du IIIesiècle avant notre ère, du bassin du Tarim, en Chine. Ce...
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Cambodia's vast lost city
Cambodia's vast lost city: world's greatest pre-industrial site unearthedA ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient...
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Kazakhstan to Rebury Ancient Warlord, Fearing ‘Curse’
Jewelry found in the burial mound of the first “Golden Man” in 1970© RIA Novosti. Dmitriy Korobeinikov14:28 28/06/2013Source: Ria NovostiTags: Altai Princess, Golden Man, KazakhstanRelated NewsAltai...
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Intriguing burial from the Western Zhou Dynasty
Source: CNTV.com 5 July 2013Watch VideoPlay VideoIn Suizhou in Hubei Province, some new archaeological discoveries have been made in a series of tombs from the Western Zhou Dynasty in Yejiashan....
View ArticleDigital 3D Dunhuang Caves exhibit at the Hong Kong Book Fair
A special exhibition "Pure Land -- Inside the Mogao Caves" will be set up in the Art Gallery of this year's Hong Kong Book Fair.The display is the brainchild of the City University of Hong Kong's...
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Was there a Xià Dynasty?
Was there a Xià Dynasty?Victor H. MairSino-Platonic Papers, 238 (May 2013)As part of a larger study on the role of northern peoples in the foundation of states in the East Asian Heartland (EAH)...
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Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang
Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang by Rong Xinjiang, Beijing University Translated by: Imre Galambos, University of Cambridge In Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang, Rong Xinjiang provides an accessible overview...
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News about the Yejiashan Graveyard in China
A worker excavates ancient wares from earth in central China's Hubei Province. Source: China.org.cn/ Xinhua, July 9, 2013A painted bronze pot has been unearthed from a cluster of tombs in central...
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Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia
From the Oxus River to the Chinese ShoresStudies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central AsiaLi Tang, Dietmar W. Winkler (Eds.)Reihe: orientalia - patristica - oecumenica Bd. 5, 2013, 480 S.,...
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700-year-old shipwreck antiquities found in central Vietnam (with photo's)
Xinhua, 1 july 2013HANOI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of antiquities from an ancient sunken ship have been discovered in Binh Son district in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai, state-run news...
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