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The coins and history of asia Containing information and scans of over 2100 coins, these pages are to be a resource for students of Near Eastern, Persian, Indian, Central Asian and Chinese history from 600 BC to 1600 AD. Permanent exhibits with emphasis on Sasanian, Hunnic and Central Asian coinages. Check back often and reload everything because I'm adding all the time. Begun in July 1996, I've ...

This is the premier site for information on archaeology and ethnograpy of Eurasian nomads and publications on Eurasian nomadic cultures.

A building by building tour of the deserted medieval Armenian city of Ani ...

A joint expedition of Russian and Uzbek archaeologists has discovered several ancient pyramids in Uzbekistan.

The Origins of Angkor Archaeological Project is a multi-disciplinary research project being undertaken by the University of Otago Department of Anthropology and the Fine Arts Department of Thailand. The aim of the project is to assess the seminal aspects of the social, cultural and technological development in the Mun River valley of Northeast Thailand. Four sites have been excavated, a Bronze ...

Brilliant, lavishly illustrated. ---Philippe Gignoux, Editor, Studia Iranica, Abstracta Iranica 12 New results . . . , general overviews on decades of research. In all cases, the papers are of great interest. ---A. Invernizzi, AJA 101.3 (1997) Lavishly illustrated and well-documented . . . published in a luxurious, 'old-fashioned' way. ---Elisabeth C. L. During Caspers, Bibliotheca Orientalis 49 ...

A description of literacy and writing systems in early Philippines.

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Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Images This page contains a summary of all the picture files available on this Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture Web site, along with their sources. The images are divided into the following categories Maps Archaeology Art Divinities People Historical Sites Historical Illustrations Technology Customs Stereotypes Middle East Images ...

Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia Take a virtual tour of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia. This exhibition was on view at the Gallery 29 June - 28 September 1997. Virtual Tour Start Cambodia Tour (Apple QuickTime VR required) See below for descriptions and technical information plug-in tour Virtual Tour Technical Requirements This virtual tour allows you to navigate through ...

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Japanese page You are the visitor to Kusado Sengen since October 10, 1996. suzuki-y@mars.dtinet.ne.jp Copyright 1996-1998 Yasuyuki Suzuki & Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History, Fukuyama, Japan. Last updated: May 26, 1998 ...

Angkor Wat Ankor Wat is the majestic work of Suryavarman II (1113-c. 1150). A moat and three galleries encircle the five central shrines. From the west one approaches the first outer gallery over a long bridge over the moat (see picture 1, below). The first gallery has square pillars on the outer side and a closed wall on the inner side (see picture 2, below). The ceiling between the pillars is ...

DANGEROUS ARCHAEOLOGY: Francis Willey Kelsey and Armenia (1919-1920) Table of Contents Archaeology and the Near East The Near East: Ancient and Modern From Caravan to Railroad From Adventuring to Science Popular Interpretations of Archaeological Discovery The New Breed of Near Eastern Archaeologist: James Henry Breasted A Classical Scholar in the Near East: Francis Willey Kelsey Francis Kelsey's ...

When these pyramids are mapped, we just may find that some are aligned to constellations important to the ancient Chinese, much like the Giza pyramids are aligned to the three belt stars of the constellation Orion. ---- Laura Lee Rocky Mountain News Article from 1947 ANCIENT PYRAMIDS IN CHINA Hartwig Hausdorf, a researcher in Germany, sent over these photographs from his collection, taken during ...

Objects & Commentary Late Prehistoric China Bronze Age China Chu and Other Cultures Early Imperial China Teaching Activities Resources Chronology Pronunciation Guide/Glossary These teaching materials were developed in conjunction with the exhibition The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China, which is no longer on view at the National ...

Ezra B. Zubrow Professor Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1971 Office: MFAC Rm 251A Phone: (716) 645-2369 Email: zubrow@acsu.buffalo.edu Research Interests Archaeological theory and method, ecology, simulation methods, demography, marginal cultural areas; Southwest, Northeast, Norway, England, Philippines Recent Publications 2001 Social Disability and the Public Good with Marcia Rioux Chapter 6 in ...

The Indo-European Studies Bulletin is published twice yearly by the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies (FAIES) and is officially affiliated with the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. A complete list of issues and contents, as well as additional information, can be found at http://www.indo-european.org/page3.html. The Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies is a support group ...

CAMBODIA Cambodia (see map) is the homeland of the Khmer. Three periods can be discerned in Khmer history: the pre-Angkor period (before 802), the Angkor period (802-1431) and the post-Angkor period (after 1431). During the Angkor period the centre of the kingdom was at Angkor (see map). The ancient monuments are from this period. Jayavarman II founded the Angkor kingdom in 802. Some temples on ...

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HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum Highway Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway Subject Index Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway - a brief introduction.... Publications Selected Bibliography Indus Valley Rock Art Gallery Some pictures from the KKH and the upper Indus Valley The Research Page RockArtNet ...

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Spring 1995 (3.1) Thor Heyerdahl in Azerbaijan KON-TIKI MAN by Betty Blair Other articles related to Thor Heyerdahl: (1) The Azerbaijan Connection: Challenging Euro-Centric Theories of Migration by Heyerdahl (AI 3:1, Spring 1995) (2) Azerbaijan's Primal Music Norwegians Find 'The Land We Come From' by Steinar Opheim (AI 5.4, Winter 1997) (3) Thor Heyerdahl in Baku (AI 7:3, Autumn 1999) (4) ...

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- translation of Maurice Glaize's popular and definitive 1944 guide to the Angkor Monuments. Read online or download the fully illustrated text with a useful map.

Spring 1995 (3.1) The Azerbaijan Connection Challenging Euro-Centric Theories of Migration by Dr. Thor Heyerdahl Other articles related to Thor Heyerdahl: (1) Thor Heyerdahl in Azerbaijan: KON-TIKI Man by Betty Blair (AI 3:1, Spring 1995) (2) Azerbaijan's Primal Music Norwegians Find 'The Land We Come From' by Opheim (AI 5.4, Winter 1997) (3) Thor Heyerdahl in Baku (AI 7:3, Autumn 1999) (4) ...

ARTHUR M. SACKLER PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA M U S E U M Background The Collection Exhibitions Special Events Visiting Hours Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art & Archaeology The Jillian Sackler Sculpture Court & Garden The Sackler Museum & the Sculpture Court & Garden were made possible by a major contribution from the AMS Foundation for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Presented by Mrs.

Angkor (Cambodia) Photo Diary - photos taken on my travel to Cambodia (November 1999) ...

Altay, The Joint Mongolian / American / Russian Project, is dedicated to the study of the ecology of ancient cultures in the Altay Mountains of North Asia.

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Afghanistan 1969-1974 Museum Kabul 1 Museum Kabul 2 New (2 Apr 2002) Museum Kabul 3 Hadda Tepe Shotur 1 Hadda Tepe Shotur 2 Tepe Shotur 3 New (6.4.2002) Nangarhar: Darunta, Tepe Shotur 4 Bamiyan 1 Ghandak, Stupa Mori, Museum Ghazni, Qarez-i Mir Bamiyan, Shewaki Surkh Kotal Minar-e Chakri Haibak & Bamiyan Landscape &c Minar-i Jam Doab, Surkh Kotal, Balkh, Mazar-i Sharif, Herat, Bost Kabul 1969 ...

Korean History: A Bibliography Compiled by Kenneth Robinson Maintained by The Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai`i CKS HOME Korean History: A Bibliography History Index Archaeology Archaeology An, Deog-im. Fish Remains from Konam-ri Shell Midden Sites, Anmyun Island, Korea. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology (1991): 65-72. An, Deog-Im. The Excavation of Songgungni Shell ...

Five Minutes Before the Discovery of Ban Chiang painting by Ardeth Anderson, Ban Chiang Project Illustrator Welcome to the Ban Chiang project ... W hile walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand in 1966, Stephen Young tripped on a kapok tree root, fell headlong, and launched one of the major archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. After finding himself on the ground ...

Free trial issue subscribe back issues Athena Review, Vol.1, No.1 Angkor, Cambodia: a major center of the ancient Khmer culture New pictures of the huge ceremonial city of Angkor, Cambodia have been produced from earth orbit, using Spaceborne Imaging Radar (SIR-C) methods. This SIR-C image, taken from the space shuttle Endeavor on September 30, 1994, is revealing new data on settlements and ...

Home | History | Techniques | Paintings | Artists | Galleries | Museums | Art Books | Art Supplies | Contact us K h m e r C e r a m i c s The ceramics of the Khmer empire are believed to have started being produced in the 9th Century. The ceramcis are of extremely good quality and were produced in high volumes during the 11th and 12th centuries, especially around the kilns at Mout Kulen near ...

TEMPLE AND VILLAGE: Patterns and Prints of India - a special exhibition at the Frank H. McClung Museum ...

Participating Institutions: Institute of History, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk http://www.archaeology.nsc.ru/index.htm Department of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, Tucson http://w3.arizona.edu/~anthro/ ...

The Bamian valley, Afghanistan, showing the ancient caves of the Kushan Dynasty, the main town, located in central Afghanistan. It lies northwest of Kabul, the nation's capital, in the Bamian valley at an elevation of 2, 590 meters. The tourist traffic has prompted the building of a tourist centre and a government hotel in the town. Population (1988 est.) 8, 700. Bamian is first mentioned in 5th ...

ON Monday March 12, 2001, the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement released at the UN cultural organization's Paris headquarters that the UN Envoy to Afghanistan has confirmed that the ancient Buddha statues at Bamiyan have been destroyed by the ruling Taliban militia. I was distressed to learn from my special envoy, Pierre Lafrance, that the destruction of the ...

THE UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY OF VESTIGES OF THE MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN JEWS Kevin Alan Brook INTRODUCTION In 1996, an unexpected and remarkable archaeological discovery of Jewish significance was made by an Armenian bishop, Abraham Mkrtchyan. The bishop came upon a number of large inscribed gravestones in a river and an adjoining forest at the edge of Eghegis, in the Siwniq region of southeastern Armenia.

Highlight: Sculptures and bas-reliefs in Khmer Art An introduction The idealized faces the sculptors of ancient Cambodia so skilfully managed to draw forth from stone represent strikingly realistic portraits that capture the majesty and impassivity of gods, as well as the compassion of divinities imbued with a gentle inner smile. In their bas-reliefs, these artists devoted their talent not only ...

Jews in Medieval Armenia In the 13th-15th centuries, at least one Jewish community flourished in Armenia. Evidence indicates that the Armenian Jews came from Persia. Many Jews lived in the city of Eghegis, and their gravestones have been found, translated, and analyzed. They were a religiously-observant community. Based on existing evidence, researchers believe that the Jews and Christians in ...

The Prehistoric Archaeology of Japan Introduction The modern-day country of Japan consists of four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Minor island chains include Okinawa (also called the Ryuku Islands) in the south; the Kuriles north of Hokkaido; and the Izu Islands extending outwards into the Pacific Ocean. Extending from latitude 45 N to latitude 24 N, the archipelago has ...

UZBEKISTAN DAILY DIGEST Home Daily News Uzbekistan From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org) Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 09:54:24 EST Next message: Justin Burke: RFERL 11/30/00: Uzbekistan Probes Afghanistan Arrangement Previous message: Justin Burke: BBC 11/30/00: Uzbek soil will never be used for air strikes again st neighbours - official Messages sorted by: BURIAL MOUND OF QUEEN OF SACAE FOUND ...

Research article documenting the roots of Murukan worship in Sri Lanka.

A personal collection The area of South East Asia is traversed by the ancient southern trade routes from India to China and Japan. Hindu and Buddhist culture traveled along these routes over land and water. By the end of the 1st millennium these influences had developed into unique and diverse indigenous cultures. This small collection of sculptures is a personal glimpse at the artistic ...

Few Tourists Will Gaze On Pyramid Nest in China Monday, March 31, 1947 Reprint from Rocky Mountain News This long-forgotten pyramid recently was snapped from the air by army photographers in a remote region of western China. Col. Maurice Shehan, Far Eastern director of Trans-world Airlines, was among the first to report the phenomenon. Washington, March 30. - The giant pyramid reported ...

PEOPLING OF INDIA Madhav Gadgil and N.V. Joshi Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012, India U.V.Shambu Prasad Centre for Research in Indo-Bangladesh Relations 107, Jodhpur Park (Ground Floor) Calcutta 700068, India. S.Manoharan and Suresh Patil Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Office 2963, Gokulam Road, Mysore 570002, India. Table of ...

Temples Along the Indus Michael W. Meister High above the mighty Indus, on hills commonly called the Salt Range, stand important remains of forts with citadels and temples (Fig. 1). Built from the 6th to the 11th centuries AD, these structures lie in what was ancient India's far northwest (Fig. 3), now in the Panjab and North West Frontier provinces of Pakistan. Largely ignored by scholars in ...

Prof. Michael Stone Lectures in Michigan: Presentation on a Jewish Community in Medieval Armenia a Great Success by Gerald E. Ottenbreit, Jr. Dearborn, Michigan--Nearly 200 interested people, both from the Armenian American and the Jewish American communities, crowded the AGBU Alex Manoogian School in Southfield, Michigan on February 4, 2002 to hear Dr. Michael E. Stone give a captivating ...

Mother Church of Holy Etchmiadzin was completed in the year 303 A.D. The place was chosen after the Holy Vision of St. Gregory the Illuminator, who saw Jesus' descent from the Heaven to the Holy Spot, hence the name Etchmiadzin: Site of Lord's descent, or the Descent of the Only Begotten Son of Lord. Written by Gevork Nazaryan he Holy City of Holy Etchmiadzin will be the gathering point of the ...

Georgina HERRMANN O.B.E., M.A., D.Phil., FSA Contact Information: General contact details: Institute of Archaeology, UCL Direct telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 4753 E-mail: g.herrmann@ucl.ac.uk Position currently held: Reader in Western Asiatic Archaeology Research Interests: Nimrud ivories, excavations at Merv Turkmenistan. Recent Publications: Herrmann, G, 1999. Monuments of Merv, Traditional ...

Despite War, Cambodians Protect their National Treasures By JOHN SPRAGENS Jr. SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- The tides of war that have swept Cambodia during the past two decades have left its best-known temples and monuments virtually untouched. Nearly 200 temples are scattered across Siem Reap province, at the northern end of the great Tonle Sap Lake, site of the capital of the Khmer empire whose rule ...

Nbsp&nbsp&nbspIIAS | IIAS Newsletter Online | No. 20 | Regions | South Asia South Asian Archaeology 1999 From 5 to 9 July 1999, the International Institute for Asian Studies hosted South Asian Archaeology 1999 (SAA'99), the fifteenth in a series of biennial meetings which started in Cambridge back in 1967 as a rather informal get-together of European archaeologists working on South Asia.

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORIC SCIENCES Member of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (C.l.P.S.H. - U.N.E.S.C.O.) PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIII CONGRESS FORLI' - ITALIA - 8 - 14 September, 1996 VOLUME 5 / Section 16 ( The prehistory of Asia and Oceania) @ 1998, by A.B.A.C.O. s.r.l, Forli, Italy. Pages 277-285 XIII U. I. S. P. P. Congress Proceedings- ...

Here they lived and died An accidental find turns out to be an exciting and important archaeological discovery. Could a grave of stone age people, literally stumbled upon in the arid area of Pallemalala, at Hambantota reveal that vital missing link between the mid-stone era and the iron age Tharuka Dissanaike reports Several thousand years ago, a group of pre- historic people set up camp at a ...

For centuries, the area around the Mekong delta and the Cambodian central plain were ruled by the Kingdom of Java (in today's Indonesia). But in 802, Khmer prince Jayavarman II, who was born and raised at the court of the Javanese Sailendra Dynasty, declares the areas inhabited by Khmer independent from Java and thus founds the kingdom of Angkor. He is crowned as Devaraja (god king) by a Brahman ...

Bibliography of Khazar Studies, 1901-Present Compiled by Kevin Alan Brook Section 3: Archaeology See also Section 10: Khazar Cities, Towns, Villages, and Fortresses and The Jews of Khazaria (especially Chapters 2, 4, and 5) ARCHAEOLOGY: GENERAL TOPICS In Bulgarian: Dimitrov, Dimitur. Prabulgarite po severnoto i zapadnoto Chernomorie kum vuprosa za tiakhnoto prisustvie i istoriya v dneshnite ...

THE ARCHAIC INDIAN PUNCH MARKED COINS - APPROACHES TO CLASSIFICATION Shailendra Bhandare I am attaching herewith one of my papers on PMCs that is unpublished it was delivered at an ONS study in London day on 8th May 1999. I am currently improving and expanding it and it will be eventually published in the journal South Asian Studies. I thought it would be worthwhile to put it through the group ...

Volume 17 - Issue 20, Sep. 30 - Oct. 13, 2000 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Table of Contents COVER STORY Hindutva and history Why do Hindutva ideologues keep flogging a dead horse ROMILA THAPAR Frontline invited Romila Thapar, the eminent historian of ancient India, to provide a perspective on the Cover feature. THE Aryans became a historical category in the late ...

Pallemalala discovery throws new light on Lanka's pre-historic culture by Asiff Hussein A major archaeological breakthrough that could shed new light on the physical type and lifestyle of the island's pre-historic population has been accomplished by a team of Sri Lankan Archaeologists. This follows the discovery in late 1997 of a shell midden containing the skeletal remains and implements of ...

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Light shining from a Dark Age When Rome dominated much of the western world and the Han dynasty ruled China, another empire straddled the Silk Road in modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Kushan civilisation was centred, until its collapse in the fifth century AD, on fortress cities like the spectacular Bala Hisar at Charsadda on the fertile flood-plains of Peshawar. Excavations by Dr Robin ...

Plunder in the valley of the Buddhas By Justin Colledge-Wiggins in Peshawar It starts with a rumour: someone has uncovered a small statue. It is enough to mobilise small armies of villagers equipped with shovels and assault rifles for some nocturnal antiquity raiding. In Peshawar, Pakistan's notorious frontier capital, the trade in smuggled artefacts is now a booming industry, growing with ...

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Altai-The Pearl of Asia Travel program with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences There are many places on the Earth inimitable in their beauty. The Altai is a vast mountain region situated on the border of Siberia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. Obviously it may be considered as one of the rarest creations of Nature. From the ...

New evidence suggests that Asia's greatest brick monument was not abandoned unfinished.