The launch event, exhibition and roundtable for this publication celebrated its achievements, and served as a platform for dialogue among experts and authors featured in this volume, with its rich ...

Many recreational pursuits including abstract strategy games spread via the Silk Roads as merchants, artisans, envoys and ambassadors travelled along them, sharing the games of their home regions and ...

Archaeological research has identified a nuanced trade system forming in the Malay Peninsula around the 6 th and 7 th centuries. The earliest of these sites, situated both on the east and west coast ...

We invite you to join us each week for Did you know? articles which adhere to preselected themes. Knowledge and appreciation of these subjects helps to preserve, diffuse, and promote elements of our ...

Washoku is a social practice based on a set of skills, knowledge, practice and traditions related to the production, processing, preparation and consumption of food. It is associated with an essential ...

Opening of the exhibition Heritage and Intercultural Exchange: Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism along the Silk Roads – 13:00 | Salle des Pas Perdus The exhibition highlights the creativity of ...

The cultures and economies of the nomadic tribes of northern Asia had many common traits, simply as a result of the requirements of life on the Steppes. Developments in farming technology in the Iron ...

Spring is in the air! Marking one of the holiest days of the ancient Zoroastrian calendar, Nowruz is an annual event that honors our common Silk Roads heritage, traditions, and culture with the birth ...

The development of languages is a fluid process, and the emergence of linguistic identities in Central Asia from the second millennium BC does not disguise the fact that many of these languages were ...

UNESCO established the Memory of the World Programme in 1992. The original impetus came from a growing awareness of the difficulties in preserving and accessing documentary heritage in various parts ...

The Young Scholars on the Silk Roads interview series seeks to empower young people, by giving youth a platform from which to transmit their voices. Via this series young scholars hailing from ...