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New book by Donald Lopez: Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism
Hyecho's Journey: The World of Buddhism 8 Dec 2017by Donald S. Lopez Jr208 pages | 27 color plates, 1 halftone | 7 x 10 | © 2017The university of Chicago Press booksIn the year 721, a...
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Famous Buddhist Fugan Temple in Chengdu rediscovered
Source:Ancient origins 6 JUNE, 2017 - 22:50 by THEODOROS KARASAVVASBuried for Almost a Millennium, Archaeologists Recover Over 1,500 Religious Artifacts at Lost Chinese TempleA team of...
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More news about the Shigir Idol (from the Ural Mountains)
Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'By The Siberian Times reporter15 June 2017Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age...
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Gandhara relics to be exhibited in Seoul
THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTANBy Hidayat KhanPublished: June 24, 2017PHOTO: REUTERS PESHAWAR: Forty artifacts belonging to the Gandhara civilisation will be exported to Seoul, South Korea to be...
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Conference: "The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia in the First...
Sunday, June 25, 2017 All DayLocation: 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HGLondon Global GatewayJune 25-27, 2017This conference is jointly sponsored by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre...
View ArticleNew Discovery in Xinjiang: Sun-worshippers built this massive altar 3.000...
National GeographicBy Sarah GibbensPUBLISHED JUNE 27, 2017In a remote corner of northwest China, a recently excavated 3,000-year-old sun altar offers clues to how the region's tribal cultures practiced...
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Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian...
Go to Online EditionEdited and annotated by Ying Liu, University of Victoria, Zhongping Chen, University of Victoria, Gregory Blue, University of VictoriaZheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and...
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Unique opportunities in Vienna: Wanted 2 University Assistants in Art history...
Two full positions as University Assistant (prae doc) in in Art History of East AsiaReference number: 7752The Department of History of Art at the University of Vienna is the biggest Center for Research...
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Exhibited relics in Hangzhou point to rich Silk Road history
Source: Shanghai Daily July 3, 2017The colored terracotta warrior EVER since President Xi Jinping proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives, also known...
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SOAS awarded £5million gift to create world-leading Institute of Zoroastrian...
SOAS London 11 July 2017SOAS University of London has secured a £5 million donation to create the world-leading SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.The donation will enable the...
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China unearths millennia-old Silk Road mummy, still in "good shape"
Xinhua 30 June 2017XINING -- The mummified remains of a middle-aged man, believed to have walked the earth about 1,700 years ago, has been unearthed on a less frequented section of the ancient Silk...
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Eastern Roman gold coins found in 1,500-year-old Chinese tomb
GBTIMES BEIJING2017/07/07Two Eastern Roman gold coins were found in a 1,500-year-old Chinese tomb in Xian, Shaanxi Province. (Photo: China News Service)Two Eastern Roman gold coins were found in a...
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Follow live British Museum Conservation 8th Century embroidery from Dunhuang...
Banner with Sakayamuni, Tang dynastie,found by Aurel Stein (1862- 1943) in cave 17 in the Mogao caves in DunhuangConserving Vulture Peak | Episode 1: IntroductionJoin textile conservators Monique...
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Sasanian Persia: Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia
Edited by Eberhard SauerSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Ancient PersiaHardcover: 256 pagesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2017)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1474401015The Sasanian...
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New discoveries at the Zeleniy Yar burial site (extreme north of Russia)
Cocooned in copper, best fur, fabric and birch bark, an adult and tiny baby from the 8th centuryBy The Siberian Times reporter14 July 2017Mummified members of an unknown bygone civilisation are dug...
View ArticleLes expéditions archéologiques russes dans le Turkestan oriental
bilan des travaux d'après de nouveaux documentsFrom: College de FranceMikhail BukharinChercheur Sénior Institut d'Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences de Russie19 juin 2017 14:30 15:30 Conférencier...
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New book by John Man about the warrior women from the grasslands of Asia...
Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient Worldby John Man Hardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Bantam Press (15 Jun. 2017)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0593077598Since the time of the ancient Greeks we...
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From the British Museum: Conserving Vulture Peak | Episode 5: Surface cleaning
In this week's episode, Hannah starts the painstaking task of dry cleaning the embroidery to remove any particulate soiling from the object.The embroidery dates from China’s Tang dynasty (AD 618–907)....
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Ancient Nomads of Mangystau (now in Kazachstan)
Where today only rubble, bare rocks and dust can be found, there once lived its own culture – the culture of Mangystau. Located in the south-west of Kazakhstan and along the eastern shore of the...
View ArticleThe Chinese Silk Road, documentary by Graeme Langford
The Chinese Silk Road - Episode 1 - The Journey BeginsThe first of three episodes in The Chinese Silk Road documentary series! In this episode, we explore the root of Islam in China in the ancient...
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