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Sunday, 22 May 2016

The Monk of the Mines- Mes Aynak


Tearsheet: Simon Norfolk photographs Mes Aynak for National Geographic


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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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Past, Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Buried Treasures of the Silk Road, Bruce Museum, greenwich, Feb 9- June 2, 2019
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Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0

Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0
Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 explores Sino-Western encounters with a guide to digitized books on China published between 1477 and 1939

Yale Silk Road Database

Yale Silk Road Database
The Yale Silk Road Database serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.

International Dunhuang Project

International Dunhuang Project
IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet

Cave Temples of Dunhuang- Getty Research Institute 2016

  • 1. Creating Replicas of Buddhist Cave Temples at the Mogao Grottoes
  • 2. Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Art, History, and Conservation
  • 3. Conserving Wall Paintings in Cave 85 at the Mogao Cave Temples
  • 4. Preserving the Mogao Cave Temples Site
  • 5. Creating the Immersive Experience of Cave 45
  • 6. Salt Damage in Wall Paintings at the Mogao Cave Temples
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  • 11. Causes of Flaking Paint in Wall Paintings at Moago Cave Temples
  • 12. Dunhuang as Nexus of the Silk Road during the Middle Ages
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All about Aurel Stein
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Silk Road Symposium March 19, 2011 Penn Museum

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A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts

A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts
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CCTV Documentary Lost Oasis on the Silk Road

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Ancient tombs of Yanghai

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Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes - Full Picture of Beauty

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Bezeklik cave no 15 (Digital)

Bezeklik cave no 15 (Digital)
Probably the best video ever to show the beauty anbd the richness of the paintings of the Bezeklik Caves

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