MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

Archaeology and History of the Silk Road

Sunday, 31 October 2021

Gold of the Great Steppe at the Fitzwilliam Museum: Curator's preview

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Rebecca Roberts introduces Gold of The Great Steppe, the first UK exhibition of recently excavated 2,700 year-old gold artefacts unearthed i...
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Friday, 11 September 2020

Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest

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Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330  (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studie...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia

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Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia by  A. C. S. Peacock ISBN-10 :  1108713483 Paperback :  323 pages ISBN-13 :  978-1108713481...
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The Great Mongol Shahnameh

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      By Robert Hillenbrand Hardcover :  544 pages ISBN-10 :  1898113831 ISBN-13 :  978-1898113836 Product Dimensions :  30 x 15 x 32.7 cm P...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2020

1700 year old face behind stunning mask from Eastern Siberia region ( north of Mongolia)

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  Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask From The Siberian Times By Anna Ledovskikh...
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Monday, 15 June 2020

The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang

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The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads by  Alison Betts ,  Marika Vicziany ,  Peter Weiming Ji...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2020

The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting

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A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvini (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art) by  Stefano Carboni Paperback:  456 pages Publisher: ...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Uzbekistan: The Road to Samarkand

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by   Yaffa Assouline   (Author),  Laziz Hamani   (Photographer) Hardcover:  336 pages Publisher:  Assouline Publishing (February 26, 2...
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Visualizing Dunhuang

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Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves  Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University  Paperba...
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Saturday, 2 May 2020

Mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head

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with a Ram's skull inside! From The Siberian Times By Anna Prokhozheva 09 April 2020 Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bon...
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Monday, 27 April 2020

The Cumans and Magyars

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The History and Legacy of the Steppe Nomads Who Raided Europe Throughout the Late Middle Ages Paperback:  135 pages Publisher:  Inde...
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Hans van Roon
Rotterdam, Netherlands
My fascination for these subjects started in the '80 's by reading the book of Peter Hopkirk about the travels and explorations of Aurel Stein in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the Silk Road through Central Asia, the Taklamakan Desert, Bokhara and Samarkand I arrived in the 13th century and followed the building of a world empire by Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons. His most famous grand son was Khubilai Khan and with him I ended in the Yuan Dynasty in the time when Marco Polo visited China and since than I never stopped reading again
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