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
On the morning of November 21st, the signing ceremony for the " InnovativeTalent Training Base for the Preservation of the Grottoes and Earth Her itageSites along the Silk Road" was held in the Dunhuang Academy. The dean of theDunhuang Academy,
On November 21, 2019, a seminar was held in the building of theUNESCO Almaty Cluster Office to summarize the results of the projectimplemented by an expert team with the participation of special ists ofthe International Institute for Central Asian Studies
The specialists of IICAS implemented a detailed photogrammetry of aseries of the sites (complex of Kasym Shaikh, mausoleum of Mir SaidBakhrom, mausoleum of Deggaron and oasis wall of Bukhara) in th eframework of the project for the nomination of the histo
At the invitation of Farhod, President of Academy of Sciences of theRepublic of Tajikistan, and in preparation for the series activities of “5500Years of Sarazm” of Tajikistan, a Sino-Tajik joint archaeological team isformed to participate in the archaeol
