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Ships of the Silk Road
Ships of the Silk Road Hardcover – 24 Jan 2019by Angus ForsythHardcover: 304 pagesPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers (24 Jan. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1781300690For hundreds of years the...
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Barbarians at the Wall by John Man
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China13 Jun 2019by John ManHardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Bantam Press (13 Jun. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1787632059The people of...
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Archaeology and Conservation Along the Silk Road
Paperback – 12 Nov 2018by Gabriela Krist (Editor), Liangren Zhang (Editor)Paperback: 215 pagesPublisher: Bohlau Verlag (12 Nov. 2018)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 3205200446Supported by Eurasia Pacific...
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Great journeys across the Pamir mountains
Editors: Huaiyu Chen and Xinjiang RongHardcover: 250 pagesPublisher: BRILL; Lam edition (26 April 2018)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 9004362223Drawing upon numerous manuscripts from China and Central Asia,...
View ArticleOne of best and definitely funniest archaeological lectures ever given
I long hesitated if I would include this lecture by Irving Finkel in my blog as it has no obvious links to the Silk Road or other related areas, but this lecture definitely has a number of qualities...
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National treasures returned: Kizil Grotto murals
CGTN By Xu Tingting and Zhang Wanbao 2018-07-20https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f7a6b444f78457a6333566d54/share_p.htmlFrom July 14 to September 2 two exhibitions revolving around a singular theme,...
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Silk Roads and Steppe Roads of Medieval China: History Unearthed from Tombs
The 2016 Rostovtzeff Lectures were delivered by Jonathan K. Skaff (Shippensburg University)."A Slave Road? Sogdian Merchants and Foreign Slaves at Turfan,""Sogdians or Borderlanders?, Part I: Lives...
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Buddhist Art of Gandhara: In the Ashmolean Museum
by David JongewardHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Ashmolean Museum Publications (18 Feb. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1910807222Buddhist Art of Gandhara is a scholarly catalogue of the Ashmolean...
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Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
by Roxann PrazniakRoxann Prazniak is professor of history at the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. Series: Perspectives on the Global PastHardcover: 304 pagesPublisher: University...
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The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire
by Thomas T AllsenSeries: Encounters with AsiaHardcover: 240 pagesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (May 3, 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0812251172In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan,...
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New article about the "Shigir Idol" from the Siberian Times
The Shigir Idol, depicting the ‘ancient spirit world’, originally stood tall beside a paleo-lakeBy Anna Liesowska26 February 2019The stunning idol is three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids....
View ArticleOrigins of the Silk Roads
Origins of the Silk Roads Lecture by Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Universityon October 24, 2018 at the Geological Lecture Hall of the Peabody...
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Art & Archaeology of the Silk Road Symposium 2017
at Portland State University October 11-13, 2017This international conference featured keynote presentations by:Daniel Waugh, director of the Seattle Silk Road Project and editor of the journal of...
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The Obsidian Polar Trade Route
Proof of a 2,000 kilometre polar trade route in volcanic glass dating back at least 8,000 yearsBy The Siberian Times reporter07 March 2019The conclusion is that ancient people used dog sleds to cover...
View ArticleNepal: The Great Plunder
Source: Al Jazeera.comInvestigating how antiquities stolen from the Himalayas end up in museums and private collections around the world.On the global art market, Himalayan statues of religious deities...
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Silk Road Exhibition April 11th- July 14th National Museum of China- Beijing
China stages exhibition to show cultural exchanges along Silk RoadBy Qu Song (People's Daily) 16:47, April 16, 2019An exhibition of treasures from national museums of 12 countries along the Silk...
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Old Uyghur Documents Concerning the Postal System of the Mongol Empire
Berliner Turfantexte Paperback – 31 May 2019by Marton Ver (Editor)Paperback: 260 pagesPublisher: Brepols Publishers; Multilingual edition (31 May 2019)Language: English, UighurISBN-10: 2503584179It is...
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New book by Susan Whitfield about the Silk Roads
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes Hardcover – 1 Oct 2019by Susan Whitfield (Editor)Hardcover: 480 pagesPublisher: University of California Press (1 Oct. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
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Early Medieval North China: Archaeological and Textual Evidence
Paperback – 20 Mar 2019by Sonja Filip (Editor), Thomas O Hollmann (Editor), Shing Muller (Editor)Paperback: 506 pagesPublisher: Harrassowitz (20 Mar. 2019)Language: Chinese, EnglishISBN-10:...
View ArticleThe Golden Road to Samarkand, Lecture by Diana Driscoll
https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/This lecture titled "The Golden Road to Samarkand: Silk Road Cities (Samarkand & Bukhara)" was given by Diana Driscoll (British Museum) on 13 February 2017 to...
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