Starting the Silk Road language summer school at Vienna. Let’s see if I can really read Tocharian, Gandhari, Bactrian and Tangut in two weeks time. 😆

2,300 years ago, Takht-i Sangin was one of the most important sites in the Oxus River basin. The temple here was dedicated to the Graeco-Bactrian god Oxus, & the Oxus Treasure thought to have been found here is now in the British Museum.

Still time to sign up for our Parthian art workshop (eventbrite link below). We'd love to see you in Oxford if you can come and meet our speakers in person, but if you can't Zoom reservation is also available.

It's publication day and the first Indian review is in, from the wonderful Mukund Padmanabhan Mukund Padmanabhan The Hindu "A powerful and sweeping account of a land that was once an economic powerhouse, a civilisational cradle and an exporter of merchandise and ideas – philosophical,

A little over two weeks to go and there's still time to sign up for our hybrid workshop, 3-4 October 2024: PARTHIAN ART & THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD. More information on our website carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/events/Up… To book a place go to eventbrite: parthianart.eventbrite.co.uk

A little over two weeks to go and there's still time to sign up for the CARC hybrid workshop, 3-4 October 2024: PARTHIAN ART & THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD. More information on our website carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/events/Up… To book a place go to eventbrite: parthianart.eventbrite.co.uk

For those in London: a talk by Alice Casalini at Royal Asiatic Society: 'The art of crossing over: Gandhāran pathways to nirvāṇa' 26 September 2024 royalasiaticsociety.org/event/alice-ca…

All welcome UCD Art Hist Cult Pol W/ UCD Classics This paper will compare 2 very different monuments, completed some 2 centuries apart, from distant cultures with no direct connection of influence: the great Buddhist stupa at Amaravati, Southern India & the Orthodox Baptistery, Ravenna.

On the spectacular #SilkRoads exhibition that opens this week British Museum - a reminder that the overwhelming majority of large empires/states that formed over the last 3000 years developed in or adjacent to the Eurasian steppes. The show is a must-see! telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/br…

Great to see this published, by our Oxford colleague Jas Elsner: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/amaravati

Five days to go! 'Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World', a hybrid international workshop - all welcome to book free parthianart.eventbrite.co.uk carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/events/Up…

Panjakent Archaeological Museum

Two days to go: 'Parthian Art & the Graeco-Roman World' parthianart.eventbrite.co.uk carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/events/Up…

The videos of papers and discussions from our recent workshop, 'Parthian Art and the Graeco-Roman World' are now available online carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/resources…

Wast & West (Italy) publishes my article "Archaeology of the Periphery: The Malakand Agency, the 'Politicals' and Antiquarian Scholarship". The journal has been published since 1958 & provides sufficient space to research on the archaeology & heritage of Swat & other parts of P.

现已以中文出版！

Lauren Morris on the Begram Hoard, 29 Jan 2025. Posted on behalf of colleagues at AMES.

Our latest open access book is out! Classical Art and Ancient India is available in print and free online carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publicati…

Featuring a special contribution by William Dalrymple !

Coming out soon - Warwick Ball's latest (with pre-order discount) Reaktion Books