news from tajikistan, a guide to khorezm, database for ukraine ARCHAEOLOGY & CULTURE Avesta.tj published a report on a recent discovery of Bactrian inscriptions on stones in the passes above the Almosi Gorge in Tajikistan. Archaeologists Bobomullo Bobomulloev of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, who reported the find to avesta.tj also sent us copy and photos – here the report can be read in Russian or English. dunyo.info reported on new discoveries in Uzbekistan. Gai Jorayev published a guide to Khorezm, written… Read More
ARCHAEOLOGY, CLIMATE ACTION, AFGHANISTAN, SILK ROAD THINGS TO READ ARCHAEOLOGY This little discovery in Kyrgyzstan: As reported in AKIPress: ‘A joint Uzbek-Italian archaeological expedition discovered the ruins of an ancient defensive structure in Pastdargom district of Samarkand region in Uzbekistan…’ Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene by Emma M. Finestone et al. in PLOS One. We are so pleased to congratulate colleagues on the award of a Leverhulme Trust research grant for the project Rivers of the Silk Roads: how water shaped societies and empires in Central Asia…. Read More