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Inscriptions found in Shanghai pre-date 'oldest Chinese language by 1,400 years'
Markings on artefacts from Zhuangqiao relics site date to 5,000 years ago and include string of words, says archaeologistShare344inShare6EmailAssociated Press in Beijingguardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10...
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Farmer stumbles upon 2,000-year-old Han tomb in Shaanxi
11 July 2013Watch VideoPlay VideoArchaeological finds are often made accidentally, and these days often occur during construction work. That’s what happened recently to a farmer in Fengxiang county in...
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Xinhua launches campaign to protect Silk Road heritage
BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Xinhua News Agency kicked off a campaign on Thursday that is intended to raise public awareness of the importance of preserving cultural heritage on the ancient Silk...
View ArticleJoyce Morgan - Aurel Stein's Silk Road - Evening of Adventure
A reading by Joyce Morgan in 2011 for the Australia & New Zealand Explorers Club (www.ANZEC.org) in 2011 named Aurel Stein's Silk Road - Evening of Adventure
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Epigraphs of ancient Turkic people discovered in Mongolia
OSAKA--Two massive slabs of stone inscribed in ancient Turkic script have been found on the steppes of eastern Mongolia, the first such discovery in over a century, a Japanese researcher said July...
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Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the ancient Incense Trade
Click on the image to start the Caravan Kingdoms interactive!CARAVAN KINGDOMS: YEMEN AND THE ANCIENT INCENSE TRADEJune 26–September 11, 2005For over a thousand years, from around 800 B.C.E. to 600...
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A Silk Road Mousetrap?
From the International Dunhuang Project ( IDP) BlogTUESDAY, JULY 16, 2013A Silk Road Mousetrap?MAS.533, © The British Museum.In 2004 during the British Library Silk Road exhibition, I showed this...
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NEW: The Secret History of the Mongols, VOLUME 3 (Supplement)
The Secret History of the Mongols, VOLUME 3 (Supplement)A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth CenturyTranslated with a Historical and Philological Commentary by Igor de RachewiltzVolume Three of...
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Prehistoric civilization found along Silk Road
Archaeologists have unearthed relics that suggest prehistoric humans lived along the Silk Road long before it was created about 2,000 years ago as a pivotal Eurasian trade network.The ruins of a Han...
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Unravelling a mystery in an ancient grave site
LANZHOU, July 24 (Xinhua) -- At a 20-square-meter lab in the Gansu provincial cultural relics research institute, archaeologists have restored a 2,000-year-old cart that was unearthed in a tomb cluster...
View ArticleExporting Enlightenment: Susan Beningson
Brooklyn Museum curator Susan Beningson gives an illustrated keytalk at the Rubin Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition "From India East: Sculpture of Devotion from the Brooklyn Museum"
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Exploring pastoral-nomadic origins and population history of the Xiongnu...
Exploring pastoral-nomadic origins and population history of the Xiongnu confederacy of Iron Age Mongoliaby Ryan SchmidtThis article discusses the complex history of Mongolia during the Xiongnu Period...
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For Korean Buddhists, it all started in Gandhara
One of the Gandhara-era structures in Taxila. PHOTO: FILEISLAMABAD: Many Pakistanis might not be aware that South Koreans trace the roots of their Buddhist heritage to centres of Gandhara civilisation...
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Cultural relics preservation technicists repair walls of Jiayu Pass
2013-07-21 23:45:26 Xinhua Web Editor: Wang WeiClick to see the next picturePhoto taken on July 21, 2013 shows a gate tower of the Jiayu Pass, the starting point of a section of the Great...
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Ruins of Suoyang City to be evaluated for World Heritage list
Photo's taken on July 22, 2013 show the ruins of Suoyang City in Guazhou County, northwest China's Gansu Province. The ruins of Suoyang City is ready to meet the evaluation from experts for its access...
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Did the Buddha visit Khotan?
"Did the Buddha visit Khotan?" is a blogpost from Sam van Schaik.So first a short introduction to Sam van Schaik and than you can rad his articleI’m Sam van Schaik, based at the British Library,...
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Captain Bower’s adventurous journey
This is the most recent blog post from EarlyTibet.com by Sam van SchaikPosted on July 4, 2013Captain Bower’s adventurous journeyDetail from the cover of Hamilton Bower’s Diary of a Journey Across...
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대영박물관:스타인(Marc Aurel Stein)돈황유화(敦煌遺畵): 892
From THIS blog site대영박물관:스타인(Marc Aurel Stein)돈황유화(敦煌遺畵): 892년 당나라탱화-관세음보살상. 佛敎繪畵藝術 / 불교예술박물관 2013/06/13 09:54http://blog.naver.com/huiripuzhao/10170256516전용뷰어 보기The British...
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Student researches typhoons that wiped out Kublai Khan's fleets
By Debra Scherban / Daily Hampshire Gazette/ August 3, 2013AMHERST, Mass. — She talks softly and rapidly as she gives a tour of the University of Massachusetts geology lab, where she is working for her...
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An illustrated 14th century Khamsah by Khvaju Kirmani
From: Asian and African Studies Blog/ British Library01 August 2013An illustrated 14th century Khamsah by Khvaju KirmaniFollowing from my last post about the recently digitised copy of Shah Tahmasp’s...
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