Kizil on the Silk Road

Kizil on the Silk Road
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Download or read book Kizil on the Silk Road written by Rajeshwari Ghose and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, the academic world celebrated 100 years of the opening of Cave 17 or the Library Cave, a veritable treasure house of Silk Road artifacts, in Dunhuang, the eastern terminus of the silk routes. Celebrations recording a hundred years of Tocharian Studies soon followed. The complexity of documenting the cultural artifacts of the so-called Silk Road becomes clear when it is remembered that between 1900 - 1925 just six men made what have been called archaeological raids into this remote corner of Central Asia. Between them until the 1940s they removed wall paintings, manuscripts, sculptures and other treasures literally by tons from the lost cities of the Silk Road. Today this great Central Asian collection, apart from what is in situ, is scattered through museums and institutions of at least 12 different countries. To even see some of this treasure one has to travel to Great Britain, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States, and have to visit over 30 institutions. The German expedition alone collected manuscripts in more than 20 languages and 25 scripts on silk, leather, birch, bark, wood paper, and more. Little wonder then that the articles on Kizil and generally on the Silk Road lie buried in obscure publications in different languages, Chinese, German and Russian being the most frequently used, apart from English.


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