I realise it has been a while since I posted anything. I have several posts in progress and am listing them below, both to remind myself and just in case anyone reading this is very keen on any par…| Silk Road Digressions
Amluk Dara, literally ‘wild persimmon hill’, is used to name a Buddhist stupa and monastic complex in the Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan. It was visited, drawn, photographed and partially excavated by Aurel Stein during his tour to Swat in … Continue reading →| Silk Road Digressions
Delighted to see the inaugural issue of the new journal, Silk Roads Archaeology and Heritage edited by colleagues at UCL, Institute of Archaeology. Also relieved that it has provided a home for an …| Silk Road Digressions
Terrcotta figure of pensive monkey found at Khotan, British Museum MAS.135 Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulata) Probably the most numerous and unusual finds from the first millennium Silk Road kingdom of…| Silk Road Digressions
Silk painting from Dunhuang, mistaken as a copy and sent by letter post to India.| Silk Road Digressions
Francke and Körber: 1914 expedition to Central Asia: Kashgar, Yarkhand, Khotan and Ladakh.| Silk Road Digressions