So, the long-nosed, tatooed, ephedra consuming tribe of the "Beauty of Loulan", known through the excavations at Xiaohe 小河 cemetery W. of Lop Nur, in their plaid, fringed loin-cloths and leather boots, was also happily slurping kefir cheese, it seems: doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

“Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads” BBC Radio4 Start the Week - today at 09.00 - with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri, Susan Whitfield, Adam Rutherford bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #SilkRoads

The brilliant Simon Calder on the #SilkRoads.... shows.acast.com/green-list-tra…

The second on how nomadic pastoralists reshaped ecologies in Bronze and Iron age Silk Road corridors, by Michael Frachetti et al nature.com/articles/natur…

“Saved from Desert Sands. Re-discovering Objects on the Silk Roads”, eds Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos (Brill: East and West series, Vol. 18, 2024)

Still time to sign up for this talk- Starting at 2pm today!

Join us this afternoon for a curators' lunchtime lecture to have an inside look at the exhibition #ASilkRoadOasis at the British Library. Tickets are still available and are free! Book here: bit.ly/3UucQbT BritishLibraryEvents

Download my free e-book: Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. brill.com/display/title/…

Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. “Visions and Frictions: Venice, the Mongols, and the New World Order (13th-14th centuries) | Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies | Vanderbilt University as.vanderbilt.edu/classical-medi…

Tangut Pillars of Uṣṇīṣavijayā in Baoding Prefecture: The Last Monuments of Xixia Descendants - PDF (English) - Nie - Written Monuments of the Orient journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/arti…

The Mongol Unification of China (Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia) : Haw, Stephen G.: Amazon.co.uk: Books amazon.co.uk/Mongol-Unifica…

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amazon.co.uk/Alexander-End-… When you think you have read everything and know everything about Alexander the Great, read this book....there is so much more known....fascinating!!!

brill.com/display/title/… Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of forgotten manuscript archives and

🇰🇭 EXPOSITION Longtemps réservé au roi, le travail du bronze a donné naissance à de véritables chefs-d’œuvre. Pour la première fois, une exposition réunit les œuvres les plus prestigieuses de l’art statuaire en bronze. 📅 Du 30 avril au 8 septembre 2025 bit.ly/bronzes-royaux…

Chinese Hanging Temples youtube.com/watch?v=t244PE… 00:00 Intro 2:48 Longmen Mountain 4:32 Zaoyang Cave 8:27 God of Wealth Temple 9:06 Qingxia Cave 10:37 Taoist Temple 17:06 Hanging Plank Road 22:08 Jade Emperor Pavilion 25:13 Sanqing Pavilion 27:23 Hanging Ladder Basic

Hisor Fortress in Tajikistan One of the oldest fortresses in Central Asia. Built after the expansion of the Aechemenid empire under Cyrus the Great.

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