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
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture (SISJAC), the Nara to Norwich online exhibition is now complete. The 142 exhibits illustrate t…| 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
Great to work with colleagues on this online exhibition, exploring arts and beliefs at the ends of the Silk Roads: Nara to Norwich.| Silk Road Digressions
After 1919, parts of the newly acquisitioned Stein collection in the British Museum started to be exhibited in permanent and temporary exhibitions. This series concentrates on the latter, but we ha…| Silk Road Digressions
@RGS_IBG 1918 exhibition of Aurel Stein’s 3rd expedition #SilkRoad #photographs.| Silk Road Digressions
