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Digitisation at the British Library of the Rabbit Garden Imperial Book Repository ε εηεΊ, a Tang dynasty manuscript from Dunhuang. The main activities of the IDP are the conserving, cataloguing, and digitising of manuscripts, woodblock prints, paintings, photographs and other artefacts in the collections material from Dunhuang and other Eastern Silk Road sites held by participating ...
"This exhibition is presenting a rather different vision of the Silk Road than some people might be expecting... Rather than a single trade route between east and west, we are showing the Silk ...
The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures by Valerie Hansen; Conservation in Japan; The Tradition of Japanese Mounting and Some Methods Applied to Early Graphic Materials by W. Andrew Hare; Conservation of 3rd Century Loulan Paper Documents by Katsuhiko Masuda; Issue 12 – Winter 1998/9. The Stein Collection in the British ...
The IDP group at the British Library ran a multi-day, multi-language, editing programme from 23rd to 26th October 2012 focused on the broad theme of Central Asian history and archaeology. As well as contributions from IDP staff and interested Wikipedians, we had participation from several external academics and three groups of students.
Susan Whitfield (born 1960) is a British scholar, currently Professor in Silk Road Studies at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), University of East Anglia. She previously worked at the British Library in London, England.
Wang Jiqing, Photographs in the British Library of Documents and Manuscripts from Sir Aurel Stein's Fourth Central Asian Expedition. Archived 15 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine; Whitfield, Susan. 2004. Aurel Stein on the Silk Road. Serindia Publications. ISBN 1-932476-11-3; also: The British Museum Press, London. ISBN 0-7141-2416-8.
The Hirayama Trainee Curatorship in Silk Road Numismatics was established in the early 1990s, as "a five-year project to enable young scholars at the beginning of their careers, to come to the British Museum for a full academic year to develop their knowledge of Silk Road coins."
1st century CE Map of Silk Road Chinese jade and steatite plaques, in the Scythian-style animal art of the steppes. 4th-3rd century BCE. British Museum.. Many artistic influences transited along the Silk Road, especially through the Central Asia, where Hellenistic, Iranian, Indian and Chinese influence were able to interact.