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An interactive trip down the Silk Road into the ancient Mogao caves
The Mogao Caves in China feature in a new exhibition at the NSW Art Gallery, Tang: Treasures from the Silk Road Capital. The Sydney Morning Herald April 9, 2016Justifiably described as a "golden age"...
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Complete Turkic burial found in Altai Mountains - Mongolia
Archeologists find ancient mummy approximately 1,500 years old in MongoliaThe Siberian Times by Anna Liesowska09 April 2016Remains of suspected female of Turkik origin found in at an altitude of 2,803...
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Tang 唐 Treasures from the Silk Road capital
Art Gallery NSW Sydney8 April- 10 July 2016 Discover the Golden Age of China with treasures of gold, silver and glass, as well as ceramics, sculptures and mural paintings from the Tang Empire.While...
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Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road
'Cave Temples of Dunhuang' at the Getty Museum wants to transport you to China's Silk RoadCave 275 is from the Northern Liang dynasty of the 5th century. The Mogao Grottoes were used as Buddhist...
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Unearthed trade route sheds new light on ancient history
The latest finding flies in the face of the long-held view that in Orissa the sea was the only trade route. The importance of riverine trade in the ancient economy, experts believe, is slowly becoming...
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Nomadism Without the Nomads
“Ecological Pastoralism” and the Uses of Human-Animal Detachment in Inner MongoliaA talk by Thomas White, University of CambridgeSince the 1980s, the privatization of pastureland in Inner Mongolia,...
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Teeth Found in Tomb of "Marquis of Haihun"
2016-04-19 Xinhua Photo taken on Dec. 24, 2015 shows gold coins in the tomb of the first "Haihunhou" (Marquis of Haihun) in Nanchang, capital city of east China's Jiangxi Province. [Photo:...
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales, based in Sydney, has opened the exhibition Tang: Treasures from the Silk Road Capital. And at the heart of the Tang Empire was its capital city - Chang'an, now...
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Visual Cultures of Mongolia - 2016 CSEN Field Program
Visual Cultures of MongoliaAugust 8 - 20 2016The Visual Cultures of Mongolia program is a 13-day exploration of Mongolia’s past and present seen in crumbling ruins, the rolling steppe, white-washed...
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The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei
The Mongol Conquests - The Military Operations of Genghis Khan and Sube'etei Hardcover – 15 Jun 2016by Carl Fredrik SverdrupHardcover: 280 pagesPublisher: Helion & Company Ltd (15 Jun....
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God
How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious FreedomHardcover – 25 Oct 2016by Jack Weatherford Hardcover: 304 pagesPublisher: Viking (25 Oct. 2016)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0735221154A landmark...
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The Problem of Tocharian Origins: An Archaeological Perspective
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS NUMBER 259 November 2015This study explores the problem of Tocharian origins in a series of stages, beginning with the archaeological identification of the historical Tocharians,...
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Greek Influences on the Pazyryk-style Wrestling Motif of the Keshengzhuang...
SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS NUMBER 260 December 2015Greek Influences on the Pazyryk-style Wrestling Motif of the Keshengzhuang Bronze Buckles Lucas Christopoulos Lausanne, Switzerland The site of...
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An aerial view at Western Qing Tombs in N China
YIXIAN, Feb. 29, 2016 (Xinhua) -- An aerial photo taken on Feb. 28, 2016 shows the scenery of Chongling for the Guangxu Emperor (1871-1908) at the Western Qing Tombs in Yixian County, north China's...
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Liao Dynasty Noble Consort tombs discovered in Inner Mongolia
From：Chinese Archaeology Writer： Date：2016-04-25From June to December 2015, the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Inner Mongolia, and other units carried out rescue excavations on a Liao...
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Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs
العربية | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | فارسی | Русский | Türkmençe | TürkçeApril 27, 2016–July 24, 2016Metropolitan Museum New YorkExhibition Location: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall...
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Buddhist Medicine
From the Penn Museum Blog by: Stephen LangThe Asian Section is happy to host a guest blog post by C. Pierce Salguero, Assistant Professor of Asian History and Religious Studies at Penn State...
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The Case for Repatriating China's Cultural Objects
The Case for Repatriating China's Cultural ObjectsHardcover – 23 Mar 2016by Zuozhen Liu This book investigates China's demands for the repatriation of Chinese cultural relics 'lost' during the...
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The Mongol World
From: the Royal Asiatic Society Blog May 6, 2016 by Nancy CharleySubscribers to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society will soon be receiving the spring issue. This edition is a...
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Splendid exhibition in the MET "The Great Age of the Seljuqs
COURT AND COSMOSTHE GREAT AGE OF THE SELJUQSMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORKAPRIL 27, 2016- JULY 24, 2016The catalogue of this exhibition is as usual with MET exhibitions so good that every picture...
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