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A collection of photographs by Dr. Volker Thewalt of Kabul Museum exhibits, Bamiyan, and other important sites in Afghanistan.
World Heritage Centre. Photograph, description, maps and documents.
A previously unknown temple is found in the middle of the Cambodian jungle, constructed in dedication to Brahmin beliefs in the ninth or tenth century.
From Xinhua, Cambodia's soldiers uncovered 154 miniature Buddhas coated with gold, silver and brass last weekin a plot in Stung Treng province.
Study of rice in Neolithic and Epi-Palaeolithic archaeological paddy sites on the middle Yangtze River.
From Xinhuanet, archaeologists have found awell preserved ancient female corpse, which was believed to be some 1,000 years old, in Gaochun county of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
From Xinhuanet, Chinese archeologists have found alarge ancient saltpeter manufacturing base which they believe was used to manufacture gunpowder over 1,000 years ago.
Recent discovery of a stone portrait of a woman scholar of the 10th century.
Status of Women in 14th Century South India.
An essay on the history and current status of Japanese archaeology.
A large database of manuscripts from Dunhuang and other parts of Central Asia. Includes a description of the discovery in 1900 of a cave full of ancient manuscripts.
The Virtual Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses is an attempt at a virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds in cyberspace for ancient relic preservation, archaeology research, and multimedia contents generation.
A report in XNA that a letter written about 2,000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China's oldest post office at a historic site near the famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottos along the ancient Silk Road.
Article in Asian Arts by John Vincent Bellezza concerning a series of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites in the western Tibet province of Ngari.
From Xinhuanet, the lections were piled up in a huge wall that is 60 meterslong and 10 meters high at the Sagya Monastery in Sagya county, roughly 400 kilometers from Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Reviewed by Chris Kostman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley.