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Steppe and the Silk Roads, China’s Interactions with its neighbours- lectures...
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson, DBE, DLitt, FBA Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford will deliver a series of lectures in Leiden and Amsterdam between 4-9 May 2015.Professor...
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Ghastly Hauntings and Divine Justice- Lecture by Bryan Lowe- Leiden- 12 may 2015
Ghastly Hauntings and Divine Justice: A New Approach to Ritual, Ethics and Kingship in Ancient Japanese BuddhismLecture by Bryan Lowe (Vanderbilt University)Buddhism & Social Justice Event 12 May...
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The conservation, digitisation and cataloguing of Tangut manuscripts
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015Collaborative Project for the Conservation, Digitisation, Research and Publication of Tangut Material in the British LibraryThe project which started in January 2015 is...
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Ancient Bronze Artifacts in Alaska Reveals Trade with Asia Before Columbus...
Livescience.com 16 April 2015 by Owen JarusBronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages...
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Discoveries offer fresh look at Silk Road History
China Daily.com by Wang Kalhao 14 April 2015Archeological site at Dazhuangke relic of the Liao Dynasty (916-1125) in Beijing's Yanqing county is one of the Top 10 archeological discoveries in China...
View ArticleRestoration Sogdian Hunting Scene and other projects in Hermitage/ St Petersburg
These two videos were prepared for the temporary exhibition from 29.10.2014- 1.3.2015 in the Hermitage in St Petersburg, called "Restoration of the Hermitage. Looking through the Prism of Time" and...
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Oldest crucible steel weapon in East Europe found by Russian archaeologists
Crucible steel sabre. Image: RAS Institute of ArchaeologyFrom: Past Horizons/ Adventures in Archaeology/ April 20, 2015Russian archaeologists conducting a routine examination of an old sabre unearthed...
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Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces
Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums Editor(s): Bruce SullivanPublished: 24-09-2015 Format: Paperback Edition: 1st Extent: 288 ISBN: 9781472590800 Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Illustrations: 8 bw...
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A rare Guan vase from the Southern Song Dynasty sold
CCTV.com April 10, 2015A rare Guan vase from the Southern Song Dynasty was sold for US$14.6 million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong Tuesday. The vase was created for the the imperial court of...
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Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script in Unicode
Title: Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Old Sogdian Script in Unicode Source: Script Encoding Initiative (SEI)Author: Anshuman Pandey (anshuman.pandey@berkeley.edu)Date:...
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Silk Road Diplomacy – Twists, Turns and Distorted History
From: YaleGlobalOnline, a publication of the MacMillan Center by Tansen Sen 23 September 2014In foreign policy initiatives, China’s leaders promote an idyllic version of the Silk Road network of land...
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Dig shines new light on ancient Singapore
Melody ZaccheusThe Straits TimesFriday, Apr 17, 201520150416_digdig_st.jpgArchaeologist Lim Chen Sian (C) and his team: Volunteers (left) Natalie Khoo (L), and Young Wei Ping (R) 516 1 0 0...
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Marco Polo: the women
-Thoughts on John Fusco’s Marco Polo, post 1-Amgalant.com by Bryn Hammond posted on 8 April 2015This interview with Marco Polo actors Joan Chen and Zhu Zhu asks how they present the women — whom the...
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Travelling China's Silk Road
“I did not tell half of what I saw…” Thus spoke Marco Polo of his travels along the Silk Road. As these words reveal, the important, legendary and treacherous trading route that linked China to Europe...
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Ancient ships in the Song Dynasty
BON.TV March 20 , 2015In 1973, several fishermen from Quanzhou found some wooden blocks on the beach. Originally, they thought they could use them as firewood; however, they found them hard to light....
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7-8 May 2015 Int. Conference in Leiden on the Golden Horde
International conference funded by Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT), Leiden Global Interactions (LGI) research profile areas, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS),...
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Mongol (Golden Horde) Fashion Statement
(Courtesy Zvezdana Dode)Mongol hat, shown upside-down, depicting Jesus and archangelsFrom Archaeology.org 6 April 2015The Golden Horde, a group of Mongols who conquered much of Eastern Europe in the...
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The Great & Beautiful Lost Kingdoms
by William Dalrymple The New York Review of Books21 May 2015MAY 21, 2015 ISSUEBuddhism Along the Silk Road, 5th–8th Centuryan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 2,...
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Sasanian Persia and the Silk Road
The Cultural Impact of Sasanian Persia along the Silk Road – Aspects of ContinuityPosted on: 26. 04. 2015Author: Michael Alram, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Kunsthistorisches Museum ViennaThe paper...
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Closing the case on an ancient archeological mystery
Solving 4,000-year-old mystery helps WSU archeologist find useful resource for a warmer futureWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY 29 April 2015IMAGE: BARLEY CULTIVATION IN JIUZHAIGOU NATIONAL PARK HASN'T...
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