The orchestra of the ancient theater in Thouria. Photo credit: Greek Culture MinistryThe ancient Greek city of Thouria, located in the southernPeloponnese,is among the cities which managed to thrive and become important centers all by themselves in the wi

This photo contest is an annual visual studies and educa -tional initiative designed to promote the common heritageof the Silk Roads. It of ficially launches on 19 September2019 and is open to participants aged 14-25 living in ortravelling along the Silk

The groundbreaking ceremony of the construction projectof Gansu Jiandu documentation museum was held in Lanzhouon 31st July. The museum, which includes one floorunderground and four-story main building above ground,is scheduled to be completed and open to

The "Shared Culture and the Unified Desting-XinjiangCultural Relics Exhibition" jointly organized by theNational Museum of China and the Museum of XinjiangUygur Autonomous Region, opened in Hall 1 of theNational Museum of China on 9th July . The

Over the past five years since the "Silk Roads: Route Network o fChang'an-Tianshan Corridor" project had been successfullyinscribed on the World Heritage List, Shaanxi had fulfilled its internationalcommitments, promoted exchanges and mutual lea

On 17th July , the Shaanxi Museum of Historyand the The State H istorical a nd CulturalReserve-Museum "Issyk" of History and Cultureof Kaz akhstan held a meeti ng in Xi' an andsigned a memorandum of cooperation withKazakhstan. Qiang Yue, secreta

Nearly two years after carrying out overseas archaeologyprojects in Uzbekistan, the archaeology excavation methodsof the Luoyang City Cultural Heritage and ArchaeologyResearch Institute, especially the drilling survey technol -ogy, have been highly apprec

The Afghan Archaeological Authority has revealed that somecopies of Buddhist scriptures that may have been written aroundthe 7th century have been found at the site of Mes Aynak in centralAfghanistan.The discovery of transcripts from ancient sites was rar

From 10 to 12 September, a four-country archaeological investigation onFergana Valley was held in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, initiated by NorthwesternUniversity(China) and co-hosted by Institute of History, Archaeology andEthnology of Kyrgyzs Academy of Sciences.15

On August 8-10, 2019, the International Institute for Central AsianStudies(IICAS) in cooperation with the University College Londo norganized in Istanbul, Turkey, an interstate meeting of the official representativesof the member-states of the Silk Roads

To assist the “South Asia Corridor” of the Silk Road to preparetransnational serial nominations for the World HeritageList, and provide academic support for it, a joint archaeo -logical team was formed by Qinghai Provincial CulturalRelics and Archaeology

On August 9th to 13th, 2019, To further explore the researchtopics of the Silk Road and the Qin-Han civilization, and to provideacademic support for the construction of the Silk Road EconomicBelt, an international conference themed “International Conferen

On November 23rd-24th, hosted by the Department of History of Fudan University,a preparatory workshop for the International Symposium on “ZhangQian and His World: Ancient China and Central Asia” was successfully heldat Fudan University. The workshop is he

At the invitation of the International Council of Monuments and Sites(ICOMOS), Jiang Bo, Vice Chairman of the China Association of Monumentsand Sites Conservation (ICOMOS CHINA) visited Uzbekistanfrom November 29th to December 3rd, 2019, and attended the

The advantageous geographical location of Sygnak at the intersectionof two destinations of the Silk Road led to its prosperity.The city had strong trading connections with Mavrennahr ,Khorezm and many cities of Central Asia.It is worth mentioning that the