[Bilimsel Haber] WEBSITE: New From Silk Road Seattle

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WEBSITE: New From Silk Road Seattle

Posted by: Daniel Waugh <dwaugh at u.washington.edu>


I am pleased to announce some significant additions to the already rich
collection of teaching and learning materials on Silk Road Seattle
(http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad). I am circulating this notice and
would appreciate its being forwarded to other relevant lists.

Please bookmark our new URL, but if you continue to use the previous
one, you will be transferred automatically to our site. The recent
additions have been possible thanks to the generous support of the
Silkroad Foundation, the work of Lance Jenott, and contributions from
several individuals. Please remember that we are always interested in
contributions of text or images, since this is an ongoing project with
horizons as broad as the Silk Roads were long. Contact Daniel Waugh
(dwaugh at u.washington.edu) with suggestions and corrections.

Here are highlights of the new material, which can also be readily
accessed from the New Additions button on our opening page:

Silk Road Geography - An introductory essay and a new set of image
galleries featuring landscapes and geography of Eurasia.

Museum Collections:

Most of the images have captions which include where possible references
to published catalogues and further information. All of the new material
is in the section of "Featured Museums."

1. Images from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  - Over 975 images, a good many being recent color photographs, among
    them: an excellent selection of the early Inner Asian nomad
    materials, especially from the Pazyryk burials, an extensive    		
    collection of Sasanian silver, Islamic ceramics and much more.
  - We have digitized and posted the largest part of the images in
    Smirnov's magnificent 1909 portfolio, Eastern Silver (Vostochnoe
    serebro).
  - Images and a pdf file of the complete English text from Boris
    Marshak's Sogdian Silver (Sogdiiskoe serebro) (1971), posted with the
    kind permission of the author;
  - Images and a pdf file of the complete text of Camilla Trever,
    Excavations in Northern Mongolia (1924-1925) (1932) on the first Noin
    Ula excavations.

2. Images from the State Historical Museum in Moscow, including many
good ones of early Central Asian material and of Golden Horde (Mongol)
material.

3. Extensive additions to our previously posted collection of images
from the National Museum of Mongolian History in Ulaanbaatar. The
selection includes a lot of Xiongnu material, quite a few images of the
recently-excavated Bilge Qaghan treasure, and a substantial amount of
material from the period of the Mongol Empire.

4.  Images of the outstanding collection of Mongolian Buddhist ritual
objects and art in the Choijin Lama Museum, Ulaanbaatar.

Cities and Architecture:

A number of new, illustrated web essays and image sets, many of them
contributed by Prof. Frank Harold.
1. Yazd, Iran
2. The Alborz, Iran & the Assassin Castles
3. Bam, Iran
4. Bamiyan, Afghanistan
5. Herat, Afghanistan
6. Mashad & the Shrine of Imam Reza
7. Balkh and Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan
8. Shahr-i-Sabz (Kesh)
9. Additions to Images of Bukhara, courtesy of Prof. Florian Schwarz
10. Images of Samarkand, courtesy of Prof. Schwarz
11. Images of Turkmenistan, courtesy of Prof. Schwarz
12. Almaliq, Xinjiang

Traditional Culture:

1. Erecting a Ger (Yurt) in Mongolia. A slide show, images from 2005.

Historical Texts:
1. The Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan.  The complete text of
Burrow's translations of the documents from Niya in the Stein Collection,
courtesy of the Royal Asiatic Society.
2. Accounts of Chinese Travelers to Central Asia in the Mongol era (from
Bretschneider):
I. Yeh-lu Ch'u t'sai (Si Yu Lu)
II. Wu-ku-sun Chung tuan (Pei Shi Ki)
III. Ch'ang Ch'un
3. The Travels of John Marignolli, 1338-1353 - Franciscan sent as papal
legate to the Mongol Emperor of China.

Daniel Waugh
University of Washington (Seattle)



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