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The International Dunhuang Project, based makes material from the Silk Road available online in collaboration with our international partners.

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    Newly deciphered inscription from Jaghori, probably dating from July 757 (140 AH) and commemorating defeat of an “Indian prince”. Read about it here:

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    Jun 5

    Nice discovery, the series opens the doors to the reserves. Reserve, the site 😍 via

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    Jun 9

    My translation, Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction is published by ’s “Languages of Asia” series!

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  4. 19 hours ago

    Ancient bird figurine recovered from refuse heap the oldest instance of East Asian 3-D art

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    Jun 10

    speaking on June 11 about Dunhuang! RSVP at the link:

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    Jun 10

    The new dating suggests that, instead of a palace, the complex was a Manichaean monastery abandoned shortly after its sponsor Bogu, a Uyghur Khan who introduced Manichaeism as a state religion, died in 780. How exciting!

    Radiocarbon Dating Pins Date For Construction Of Uyghur Complex To The Year 777 southern Siberia
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  7. Jun 9

    Check fascinating interview for where she also mentions her work on materials from the Stein collection as part of the IDP team .

    My Conversation for with . More on Conservation, Collection Care and working with manuscripts at:
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    Jun 2
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    And here is some more about it, on the conservation work carried out by Wong Wing-hui back in 2016.

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  9. Jun 1

    A nice such example in the Stein collection is the beautifully painted piece of silk that belongs to a 21-meter long Buddhist scroll in Khotanese and Sanskrit (IOL Khot S 46) that is fully digitised

    Piece of silk painted in colour with two confronted birds on lotus flowers with branches in their beaks
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    May 31

    Mariachiara Gasparini talks about this in her book - Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions Through Central Asian Textile Images

    One thing that perplexes me are silks with confronted animals, formerly IDed as , such as these examples from and . A thread:
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    May 28

    Joyeux anniversaire à M. Pelliot ! 28 mai 1878 – 26 octobre 1945 « Le redoutable Français » et sinologue hors pair

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    May 27

    Delighted to be giving this seminar tomorrow

    How can we think about transmissions of in ? Can the help us to engage with this question? Join us in an online workshop with for exploring Eurasian transmissions of medical knowledge.
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    May 26

    Our Digitisation Conservator ensures historic items like these can be safely handled during and that the text on them is visible for high quality images to be taken

    Encountering historical repairs (pre-11th C) on a scroll is exciting but they pose unique challenges for conservation. How do we deal with them? Read how Marya patiently treated a Chinese Or.8210/S.3455 with many old patches for digitisation:
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  14. May 22

    Encountering historical repairs (pre-11th C) on a scroll is exciting but they pose unique challenges for conservation. How do we deal with them? Read how Marya patiently treated a Chinese Or.8210/S.3455 with many old patches for digitisation:

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    May 11

    The museum’s conservation team has just finished restoration work of two textile pieces from the Potala Palace in Tibet, which took them quite a few months. The pieces function as the canopy in the Maitreya (also known as the Future Buddha) Chapel of the Palace.

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    May 18

    Hotan Museum opened to the public Monday in NW 's Xinjiang. More than 1,300 cultural relics are on display, many of which tell the history of the ancient .

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    May 14

    1/2 We would like to call for participation in this coloring game! Anyone who’s interested can join. There will be six weeks for this game, and each week has a different motif to fill in colors. This week’s motif is Pegasus and you have five patterns to choose from.

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    May 20

    New museum opens in of old, featuring hall devoted to the Niya archaeological site w/the famous late Han apotropaic brocade armband "Five stars rise in the east benefitting the Middle Kingdom"

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    May 18

    Zoroastrianism came to China in 4C, its elements still visible in these 14C Buddhist paintings of hell: the Chinvat Bridge, bridge of judgement separating this world & the hereafter; a giant scale by it on which deeds of the souls are weighed; a pot of molten metal for the wicked

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    May 17

    Direct broadcast in Chinese by the introducing our six archaeological sites: , , , , , & 9-11:30AM BST 5/18

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