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The newsletter from the International Dunhuang Project is out (No 44)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014IDP News No. 44, Autumn 2014The digital dome projection in the Visitors’ Centre. Courtesy of the Dunhuang Academy. Photographer: Sun Zhijun.IDP News No. 44, Autumn 2014 is now...
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Bringing a Ming painting back to life
The British Museum 8 December 2014Jin Xian Qiu, Senior Conservator of Chinese Paintings and Carol Weiss, Conservator of Chinese Paintings, British MuseumOn entering the BP exhibition Ming: 50 years...
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Opulent Clothing Unearthed in Ming Dynasty Tomb
Both of the coffins within a husband-and-wife's tomb found in China contained fine clothing. This gown, which was found in the husband’s coffin, is elaborately decorated.Credit: Photo courtesy Chinese...
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Ornate Clothing from the Ming Dynasty Unearthed in China 2 (Photos)
LiveScience.com December 8, 2014On the coast of the East China Sea, near the modern Taizhou City, archaeologists have unearthed an unusual find: A husband-and-wife tomb dating to the Ming Dynasty that...
View ArticleCeladon Daoist Longquan shrine 陶瓷道教神龕
From The British Museum October 10, 2014The celadon shrine is one of the star objects in the current BP exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China at the British Museum 18 September 2014 – 5 January...
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Critical Silk Road Studies
About Critical Silk Road StudiesCritical Silk Road Studies is a year-long series of workshops funded by the John E. Sawyer Seminarsprogram of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These workshops are...
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Hoaxes, Satire, Legends
Hoaxes, satire, legendsFrom: Amgalant.com Posted on 9 December 2014In November a satirical news site announced the discovery of Genghis Khan’s tomb: archaeologists-unearth-tomb-of-genghis-khanHoax...
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Ukok Princess to find final resting place in Altai
Mausoleum plans unveiled for homecoming of Siberian ice maidenThe Siberian Times 16 December 2014 Tattooed 2,500-year-old princess found mummified and preserved in permafrost could finally be reburied...
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Architecture in China during the Northern Wei, the Liao and the Yuan Regimes
Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures 2014 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures 2014by Nancy S. SteinhartDate: Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 4:15pm See also: Edwin O. Reischauer LecturesLocation: CGIS Building, 1730...
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The Qaraqorum Expedition
From: Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol EurasiaThe project seeks to explain why, how, when and to where people, ideas and artifacts moved in Mongol Eurasia, and what were the...
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Ancient stone Buddha statues found in SW China
Chinaculture.org 17 December 2014More than 80 stone Buddha statues and statue fragments were unearthed in southwest China's Sichuan Province, archaeologists said on Tuesday. The red sandstone statues...
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Mes Aynak: a Choice between Economy and History
Panel discussion 25th of November 2014 in Amsterdam
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The changing images of Buddha in Indian art
Faces of enlightenment Source:Global Times Published: 8 December 2014By Sun ShuangjieThe most familiar image of an Indian Buddha to Chinese people might be that featured in the extremely popular...
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Uzbekistan rediscovers lost culture in the craft of Silk Road paper makers
A Samarkand craftsman revives thousand-year-old paper production methods in Central Asian workshopKomila NabiyevaGuardian Weekly, Monday 2 June 2014Zarif Mukhtarov holds the fibre of mulberry bark,...
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The site of ancient Sizhou city rediscovered
CHINA.ORG.CN December 22, 2014Chinese Archaeologists have completed excavating the site of the ancient city of Sizhou in Xuyi county in East China's Jiangsu province.They confirmed the structure and...
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The powerful steppe empires of Central Asia were bound together by silken thread
A review of Christoph Baumer’s History of Central Asia explores some of the loneliest and loveliest places on earthThe Spectator John Hare 13 December 2014 Bridge on the 3,798-metre-high Baroghil...
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A life lived among tombs memorised
China Daily December 24, 2014Feng Qili spent his life studying those of the dead. Specifically, he devoted himself to researching Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) tombs. The 65-year-old self-taught expert on...
View ArticleGrave from a Mongol noble Korguz from the Yuan Dynasty
From: The Royal Society 8 December 2014Identification of kinship and occupant status in Mongolian noble burials of the Yuan Dynasty through a multidisciplinary approach Yinqiu Cui, Li Song, Dong...
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1000-year-old Chinese mummy gets CT scan in Holland
NLTimes.nl December 9, 2014 by Janene van JaarsveldtPicture: Jan van Esch / Meander Medisch CentrumA special examination recently occurred in the Meander Medical Center. A nearly 1,000 year old mummy...
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