New additions to "Museum Collections of Silk Road Art" (June 14, 2007):

• Revised descriptive links to a number of websites, including the addition of the British Library and the American Numismatic Society.
• Updated material for the Victoria and Albert Museum. Replacement of many earlier, substandard images; addition of quite a few new ones and a lot of links both to the Museum's own database and to objects in other collections.
• An extensive set of pages with objects from the British Museum, a great many of them not yet on the museum's own website. Included are sculptures collected by Aurel Stein at Buddhist sites in the Tarim Basin, a widely ranging selection of other material from China, some Kushan/Bactrian material, and a very extensive selection from the Islamic collections, including representative Islamic coins. Links have been provided to the Museum's own web pages in cases where they exist for objects displayed here; also, there are a number of links to analogous objects in other museums' collections.

New additions to our "Featured Museums" galleries (May 2, 2007):

• The National Museum of the Middle Ages (Paris). A selection focusing on textiles and ivories.
• The Louvre. Several hundred images from their Near Eastern Antiquities and Islamic collections.
• The Musée Guimet (Paris) - Hundreds of photographs of objects from the French national museum of Asian art, including espeically material from Afghanistan and China.
• Uppsala Cathedral Museum (Sweden). Includes a noteworthy collection of medieval textiles.

Silk Road Geography - A new set of image galleries featuring landscapes and geography of Eurasia. (7/13/2006)

Museum Collections:

1. Camilla Trever, Excavations in Northern Mongolia (1924-1925). Leningrad: J. Fedorov Printing House, 1932. Includes extensive description of grave contents at Noin Ula. (Accessible on the Noin Ula page.) (6/28/2006)
2. Images from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (Over 975 images 7/9/2006)
3. The Choijin Lama Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (7/10/2006)
4. The State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia (7/11/2006)
5. The English portion of B. I. Marshak's Sogdiiskoe serebro. Ocherki po vostochnoi torevtike (Moscow: Izd-vo "Nauka": Gl. red. vostochn. lit-ry, 1971). Click here for link to the PDF file and accompanying images. (7/15/2006)
6. Extensive additions to the National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar collection (7/18/2006)

Cities and Architecture:

1. Yazd, Iran (6/13/2006)
2. The Alborz, Iran & the Assassin Castles (6/13/2006)
3. Bam, Iran (6/13/2006)
4. Bamiyan, Afghanistan (6/13/2006)
5. Herat, Afghanistan (6/13/2006)
6. Mashad & the Shrine of Imam Reza (6/16/2006)
7. Balkh and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan (6/16/2006)
8. Shahr-i-Sabz (Kesh) (6/16/2006)
9. Additions to Images of Bukhara, courtesy of Florian Schwarz (6/28/2006)
10. Images of Samarkand, courtesy of Florian Schwarz (6/28/2006)
11. Images of Turkmenistan, courtesy of Florian Schwarz (6/28/2006)
12. Almaliq, Xinjiang (7/14/2006)

Traditional Culture:

1. Erecting a Ger (Yurt) (6/17/2006)

Historical Texts:

1. The Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan (6/21/2006)
2. Accounts of Chinese Travelers to Central Asia in the Mongol era (6/28/2006):
1. Ye-lü Ch'u t'sai (Si Yu Lu)
2. Wu-ku-sun Chung tuan(Pei Shi Ki)
3. Ch'ang Ch'un
3. The Travels of John Marignolli, 1338-1353 --a Franciscan sent as papal legate to the Mongol Emperor of China. (7/18/2006)

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