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http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/caravanserais-98.html
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Sobre la Transoxiana Histórica
El nombre "Transoxiana" fue elegido en homenaje a la región centroasiática asi llamada por los griegos, a través de la cual pasaban las rutas que llevaban especias e ideas, de un punto a otro del mundo, del Japon a Venecia, la que recorrieron monjes y viajeros, la Ruta de la Seda.
Probable hogar de Zoroastro, Transoxiana fue el término usado por los griegos para denominar a la región situada más allá del río Oxus (hoy Amu Darya). Llamada Sogdiana por los Aquemenidas y unificada con Bactria por Alejandro Magno en una sola satrapía. Independizada, conformó el Reino Greco-Bactrio de Diodoto, posteriormente invadido por la dinastía Kushana, luego ocupada por los árabes en el siglo VIII. Allí se desarrolló una buena parte de la ciencia que los árabes legaron a Europa en los siglos posteriores. En el siglo XIII fue ocupada por los mongoles y en el siglo XIV Tamerlan instaló alli, en Samarcanda, su capital, y atrajo a ella a gentes de todas las artes, profesiones y comercios: griegos, chinos, egipcios, persas, armenios, sirios, etc. La región fue sucesivamente gobernada por diversas ciudades-estado islámicas independientes, hasta el siglo XIX, cuando fue invadida por los rusos. Hoy es parte de la República de Uzbekistan, independiente desde 1991. Bukhara, Samarkanda y Khiva son, probablemente, los exponentes mas prestigiosos de la milenaria historia de la Transoxiana.
González
de Clavijo, Ruy, Vida y hazañas del Gran Tamorlán, con la descripción
de las tierras de su imperio y señorío (1412)
Edición digital a partir de Historia del Gran Tamorlan e itinerario y
narración del viaje de la Embajada de Ruy González de Clavijo. Madrid,
Miraguano, 1984, pp. 23-259. [Español]
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=1137
Silk Road Narratives:
A Collection of Historical Texts
The Silk Road Seattle Project makes available
interesting historical sources which may be used in teaching
and learning about the Silk Road.
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/texts.html
The
Western Regions according to the
Hou Hanshu - The Xiyu juan - "Chapter on the Western Regions"
From Hou Hanshu 88 - Second Edition - (Extensively revised with additional
notes and appendices). Translated by John E. Hill, September 2003
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html
Daniel
C. Waugh Trans., The Memories of Babur (Baburnama)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/babur/babur1.html
Guitty
Azarpay, The Burial Rite: an Expression of Sogdian Beliefs and
Practices
The Silkroad Fundation Newsletter Vol 2 No 1 July 2004
http://www.silk/aoad.com/newsletter/2004vol2num1/burial.htm
Michael
D. Frachetti, Archaeological Explorations of Bronze
Age Pastoral Societies in the Mountains of Eastern Eurasia
The Silkroad Fundation Newsletter Vol 2 No 1 July 2004
http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/2004vol2num1/bronzeage.htm
Boris I.
Marshak, The Archaeology of Sogdiana
The Silkroad Fundation Newsletter Vol 1 No 2 December 2003
http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/december/archaeology.htm
Aleksandr
Naymark, Returning to Varakhsha
The Silkroad Fundation Newsletter Vol 1 No 2 December 2003
http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/december/varakhsha.htm
Albert E. Dien,
The Glories of Sogdiana
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/sogdian.shtml
Boris I.
Marshak, Masterpieces from Tajikistan
http://www.miho.or.jp/booth/html/doccon/00003074e.htm
Transoxiana, Journal Libre
de Estudios Orientales
(Note: You can try transoxiana.com.ar instead of transoxiana.org if the
site appears to be blocked from your location, i.e. China.)
Eran ud Aneran,
Webfestschrift Marshak 2003
Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70th
Birthday. Compareti, Raffetta, Scarcia - Editors
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/
Etsuko
Kageyama, Use and production of silks in Sogdiana
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/kageyama.html
G. Babayarov,
Sogd under Turkish Rule during VIth-VIIIth centuries (On Sogdian and Turkish
Symbiosis)
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/babayarov.html
C. Benjamin,
The Yuezhi Migration and Sogdia
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/benjamin.html
M. Compareti,
The Role of the Sogdian Colonies in the Diffusion of the Pearl Roundels
Pattern
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/compareti.html
F. Grenet,
La plus ancienne inscription sogdienne
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/grenet.html
T. Hayashi,
Sogdian Influences Seen on Turkic Stone Statues.
Focusing on the Fingers Representations
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/hayashi.html
S.G.
Klyashtorny, Ancient Turk Rock Inscriptions in the Talass Ala-Too:
A Sogdian Word in an Old Turk Inscription
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/index_eran_ud_aneran.html
Lin Ying,
Sogdians and Imitations of Byzantine Gold Coin Unearthed in the
Heartland of China
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/lin_ying.html
V.A. Livshits,
Three New Ostraca Documents from Old Nisa
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/livshits.html
P.V. Lurje,
"Shapur's Will" in Bukhara
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/lurje.html
M. Mode,
Heroic fights and dying heroes - The Orlat battle
plaque and the roots of Sogdian art
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/mode.html
A.
Naymark, A Note on Sogdian Coroplastics - Two Ossuary Fragments
from Afrasiab
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/naymark.html
T. Osawa,
Aspects of the relationship between the ancient Turkish and Sogdians
-based on a stone statue with Sogdian inscription in Xinjiang-
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/osawa.html
A. Santoro,
On The Two Intertwined Dragons from Pendzikent
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/santoro.html
G.L. Semenov,
Dwelling houses of Bukhara in the Early Middle Ages
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/semenov.html
B.Y. Stavisky,
Once more about peculiarities of the Sogdian
Civilization of the 4th-10th Centuries
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/stavisky.html
S.A. Yatsenko,
The Late Sogdian Costume (the 5th - 8th cc. AD)
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/yatsenko.html
Rtveladze,
Coins from Kish - 3rd-2nd Centuries BC - 8th Century
AD
http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/rtveladze.html
Elena Neva,
Artistic Features of Jewelry Art from Central Asia
(IV BC-IV AD), Transoxiana 8, Junio 2004
http://www.transoxiana.org/0108/neva-art_jewelry.html
Elena
Neva, Ancient Jewelry from Central Asia,
Transoxiana 6, Julio 2003
http://www.transoxiana.org/0106/neva_jewelry_central_asia.html>
Elena
Neva, Antigua joyería del Asia Central [Español]
http://www.transoxiana.org/0106/neva_joyeria_asia_central.html
E. Chaparro,
Las matemáticas en el Islam medieval (I)
Transoxiana 5, Diciembre 2002 [Español]
http://www.transoxiana.org/0105/chaparro_math_islam.html
Sergey
A. Yatsenko, The Costume of Foreign Embassies and
Inhabitants of Samarkand on Wall Painting of the 7th c. in the "Hall of
Ambassadors" from Afrasiab as a Historical Source
Transoxiana 8 Junio 2004
http://www.transoxiana.org/0108/yatsenko-afrasiab_costume.html
Matteo
Compareti, Sogdiana, Iranian culture in Central Asia
July 24, 2001, The Iranian
http://www.iranian.com/History/2001/July/Sogdiana/index.html
Matteo
Compareti, Remarks on the Sogdian Religious Iconography
in 7th Century Samarkand
Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
http://www.eurasianhistory.com/data/articles/a02/422.html
Lin Ying,
Some Chinese Sources on the Khazars and Khwarazm
Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
http://www.eurasianhistory.com/data/articles/a02/695.html
Amy Heller, The Silver
Jug of the Lhasa Jokhang: Some Observations on silver objects and costumes
from the Tibetan Empire (7th-9th century)
http://www.asianart.com/articles/heller/
Thierry
Zarcone, El Turkestan chino: Islamización y derviches marginales
(qalandaríles, malamatíes, yasawíes y uwaysíes), Complicidad con la política e
imperio de la sharî'a (la Naqshbandiya)
QUINTO SOL, Número 146, 5 de noviembre de 2001 [Español]
http://www.webislam.com/numeros/2001/11_01/Articulos%2011_01/Turkestan_chino.htm
G.
A. Pugachenkova, A. H. Dani and Liu Yingsheng, Urban
Development and Architecture
History of Civilizations of Central Asia
http://www.unesco.org/culture/asia/html_eng/chapitre4218/chapitre1.htm
Eileen
K. Gunn, Phoenix Cities of Central Asia
Introduction, Conquerors of Transoxiana, Travelers to Transoxiana, Golden
Samarkand, Architecture, Archaeology, Holy Bukhara, Architecture, Untouched
Khiva, Architecture
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/uzbekistan/cities.htm
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Fachbereich Kunst-, Orient- und Altertumswissenschaften, Institut für Orientalische Archäologie und Kunst, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Division of Arts, Orientalism, and Classics, Department of Oriental Archaeology and Art, Halle (Saale) - Germany
By Markus Mode:
Court art
of Sogdian Samarqand in the 7th century AD - Some
remarks to an old problem, 2002
http://mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de/orientarch/ca/afras/index.htm
The Sogdian site
of Pandzhikant, 2002
http://mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de/orientarch/ca/pandzh.htm
Buddhist
Monuments of Western Central Asia
http://mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de/orientarch/ca/bud/bud.htm
Introduction
http://www.orientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/bud/intro.htm
Tatiana Gfoeller,
Turkmen Archaeology: A Central Asian Surprise
Focus on Central Asia
http://www.afsa.org/fsj/apr03/gfoeller.pdf
Gonur Tepe - A Visit to
Bronze Age Turkmenistan, Anahita Gallery, Inc.
http://www.anahitagallery.com/aharch01.html
Dzharkutan: Prehistoric
proto-urbane settlement
Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute. Centre of Ancient
Civilisations of Bactria. Excavations in Djarkutan
Prehistoric
proto-urbane settlement with monumental architecture: Temple or Palace?
Location - History - Objectives - History of Research - Current Work - Methods -
Results - Cooperation - Literature
Images: Djarkutan, Lageplan, Bestattung in der Nekropole am Südrand der
Siedlung, Djarkutan: Der Bereich der "Zitadelle"
http://www.dainst.org/index_656_en.html (English)
http://www.dainst.org/index_656_de.html (Deutsch)
S.A.Grigoryev, The Sintasha
Culture and Some Questions of Indo-European Origins
Institute of history and archaeology, Ural branch of Russian Academy of
Sciences. Chelyabinsk.Russia
http://csc.ac.ru/news/1998_2/2-11-1.pdf
Second millennium BC Contacts
with Oxus Civilization
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/roots.htm
Khodadad Rezakhani
En Iranologie.com
History of Iran, Chapter
2: Iranians before Iran
http://www.iranologie.com/history/history2.html
The Iranian Language
Family
http://www.iranologie.com/history/ilf.html
En Cappuccino Magazine
(Note: All articles include Bibliography and Further Readings)
Iran,
Iranians, and the Rest of the Story
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001127.shtml
Iran Before
Iranians
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001141.shtml
Iran Before
Iranians, Part II
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001164.shtml
Indo-European
and Indo-Iranian Migrations
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001201.shtml
Zarathushtra
and His Religion
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001414.shtml o
http://www.iranologie
.com/history/zarathushtra.html
Iran during
the reign of Xerxes
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001432.shtml
يران در زمان سلطنت خشايارشا
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranology/001427.html [Farsi]
Decline and
fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Empire in
Chaos
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001534.shtml
هخامنشيان و دوران هرج و مرج
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranology/001533.html [Farsi]
The Successors
of Alexander and the Seleucids: The Empire after Alexander's
Death
http://www.cappuccinomag.com/iranologyenglish/001729.shtml
Shapur
A. Shahbazi, The 'Traditional Date of Zoroaster' Explained
http://www.azargoshnasp.net/~iran/Din/traditionaldateofzoroaster.pdf
Douglas
Q. Adams, The Position of Tocharian Among the Other
Indo-European Languages
Journal of American Oriental Society, (1984)
http://www.azargoshnasp.net/~iran/history/Tocharian/positionoftocharian.pdf
The Alekseev
Manuscript by Geraldine
Reinhart-Waller
Table of Contents: Preface, Chapter I: Introduction by Alexeev, Chapter
II: Lower Paleolithic in Eurasia, Chapter III: Middle Paleolithic
(Mousterian) in Eurasia, Chapter IV: Upper Paleolithic in Afro Eurasia,
Chapter V: Mesolithic in Eurasia, Chapter VI: Neolithic in Eurasia,
ChapterVII - Part 1: Bronze Age in Eurasia, Chapter VII - Part II: Bronze Age
in Eurasia - Chapter VIII - Iron Age in Eurasia, Chapter IX: Celebration and
Conclusion
http://www.drummingnet.com/alekseev/TableofContents.html
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF VEDIC STUDIES (EJVS) ISSN 1084-7561
Vol. 7 (2001), issue 3 (May 25)
Michael Witzel,
Autochthonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old
Indian and Iranian Texts.
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/EJVS-7-3.htm o
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0703/ejvs0703article.pdf
Michael Witzel,
Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Substrates, Migrations and
Trade.
Preprint: not for quotation. Ptd. January 19, 2002
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~sanskrit/images/C._ASIA_.pdf
C.C.
Bakels, The contents of ceramic vessels in the
Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex, Turkmenistan
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0901/ejvs0901c.txt
Victor
Sarianidi, Margiana and Soma-Haoma
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0901/ejvs0901d.txt
George
Thompson, Soma and Ecstasy in the Rgveda
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0901/ejvs0901e.txt
Mich
ael Witzel, Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan
(Rgvedic, Middle and Late Vedic), Harvard University
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0501/ejvs0501article.pdf
Mich
ael Witzel, WESTWARD HO! The Incredible Wanderlust of the
Rgvedic Tribes Exposed by S.Talageri (Saavadhaanapattra no.
2),
Harvard University
http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/ejvs0702/ejvs0702article.pdf
Chris Bennett, Soma
revealed
(12 Jan, 2004) Scholarly research and archeological evidence show that the
ancient and mysterious God-plant Soma was actually cannabis.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3155.html
Историческая география
Южного Согда и Тохаристана по арабоязычным источникам IX - начала XIII
вв.
Historical geography of Southern Sogdiana and Northern Tokharistan according to
Arab sources, IX-XIII cc. by Sh. Kamaliddinov, Tashkent, 1996 [Russian]
http://www.kroraina.com/casia/kamalid/index.html
Бактрийски брачен
договор, споменаващ изплащането на зестра, от 343 г. от н.е. (Document A,
p. 32-35 of 'Dated documents', Bactrian Documents from
Northern Afghanistan. I: Legal and Economic Documents,) N. Sims-Williams
(Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, part II, Vol. VI.: Bactrian, Oxford Univ.
Press, 2000) [Bulgarian]
http://www.kroraina.com/bactria/sims-williams_docA.html
Christoph Huber Old
Motifs: The Bactria-Margiana
Archaeological Complex as a Possible Source
This is an abridged version of an article that appears in GHEREH (No. 22, p.
35), Salon du Tapis d'Orient
http://www.turkotek.com/salon_00040/salon.html
Nicholas
Sims-Williams, Eastern Iranian Languages
Encyclopaedia Iranica, a Columbia University project, prepared by its
Center for Iranian Studies.
http://www.iranica.com/articles/v7/v7f6/v7f659.html
Jona Lendering,
Margiana
http://www.livius.org/man-md/margiana/margiana.html
Bactria-Margiana
Archaeological Complex
Contents: 1 Overview, 2 A previously unknown civilisation?, 3 The
Indo-Iranian hypothesis, 4 Notes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactria-Margiana_Archaeological_Complex
Bactria
Margiana Archaeological Complex from Wikiverse, an up-to-date high speed static
mirror of Wikipedia
http://bactria-margiana-archaeological-complex.wikiverse.org/
Merv
Contents: 1 History, 2 Remains, 3 Geography, 4 Demographics, 5 Economy, 6
Climate, 7 External link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv
Bactria
Contents: 1 Geography, 2 History, 2.1 Persian Empire, 2.2 Alexander the
Great, 2.3 Seleucid Empire, 2.4 Greco-Bactrians 2.5 Greco-Indians, 3 See
also, 4 External links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactria
Center for the Study of the Eurasian
Nomads
Site maintained by J. Davis-Kimball
http://csen.org/
Kurgans, Ritual
Sites, and Settlements:
Eurasian Bronze and Iron Age
Edited by Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova and Leonid
T. Yablonksy. BAR International Series 890, Oxford: Archeopress, 2000
http://www.csen.org/BAR%20Book/BAR.%20Part%2001.TofC.html
Book Review:
Monuments of Merv: Traditional Buildings of the
Karakum.
Georgina Herrmann with a contribution by Hugh Kennedy. 1999
http://csen.org/Articles_Reivews/Review_MonumentsOfMerv.html
Missione archeologica italiana
dell'Universitá degli Studi di
Roma "La Sapienza" in Uzbekistan
http://cisadu2.let.uniroma1.it/uzbekistan/
Маргианская археологическая экспедиция
(Margianskaya arjeologicheskayaia ekspeditziia) [Russian]
http://archaeologist.median.ru/expeditions/margiana/margianaMain.html
The International Merv Project
Turkmenistan
An Anglo-Turkmen Archaeological Collaboration, Directors: Dr. Georgina
Herrmann (IoA, UCL); Dr. K. Kurbansakhatove (Ashgabat)
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/merv.html
The Silk Road Project
Samarcand:
Geography/History | Commerce | Sacred Space | Global/Local | Travelers | Silk
Road Story
http://www.silkroadproject.org/smithsonian/samarkand.html
Nomads:
Geography/History | Sacred Space
| Shamanism | Painted Truck | Silk Road Stories
http://www.silkroadproject.org/smithsonian/nomads.html
Silk Road
Encounters Education Kit
http://www.silkroadproject.org/teachers/teachers_guide.pdf
UNESCO WebWorld
Focus
on Central Asia - Countries - Uzbekistan:
Geography, Area, Population, People, Languages, Religion, Climate, Head of
UNESCO Office
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/focus_central_asia/uzbekistan.html
Focus
on Central Asia - Countries - Tajikistan:
Geography, Area, Population, People, Languages, Religion, Climate
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/focus_central_asia/tajikistan.html
The
British Museum, Department of Ancient Near East > research >
excavations > Merv, Turkmenistan [Brief history]
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ane/anereexmerv.html
Silk
Road Seattle
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/
Art
of the Silk Road
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml
Religions
of the Silk Road
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/religion/religion.html
Traditional
Cultures in Central Asia, Dwellings, Food, Religion, Animals, Oral Epic
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/culture/culture.html
Cities
and Architecture along the Silk Road
Uzbekistan: Bukhara, Khiva, Samarkand
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/cities/cities.html
Jason
Neelis, Silk Road Trade Routes
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/trade/essay.html
Daniel
C. Waugh, Horses and Camels
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/trade/horcamae.html
The monastery of Urgut
Investigated by the East Sogdian Archaeological Expedition
On the Syrian Christianity of Sogdia (Includes Ills.)
http://www.apple.kiev.ua/esarex/
Sogdian-L
Sogdian-L is a forum for the discussion of the history of Sogdian
communities in Transoxiana and beyond, and the relations of these
communities with other communities and civilizations of
Eurasia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sogdian-l/
Kushanas
This site will be open to discussion and for archiving emails on the
subject from members and repostings from other sites. Membership is open to
anyone interested in the Kushans
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kushanas
Central Asian
Studies
This group is devoted to the scholarly discussion of anthropology,
geography, history and politics of Central Asia. Central Asia is broadly
defined as Mongolia, NW China, the Siberia, Transoxonia, Kazakstan and
Afghanistan. Economics and modern political issues are also welcome.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/centralasianstudies
Indo-Greek
Between Arya, Semite, Egyptian, European
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-greek
Indo_Iranian
This is a list for the discussion of Indo-Iranian linguistics. While the
main focus of the list will be Vedic and Avestan, discussion of any
Indo-Iranian linguistic topic will be welcome.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo_iranian
Parthia-L
This forum is designed to facilitate the study of the Arshakani (Arsacid)
dynasty, known to the west as the Parthians, and their extensive coinage.
Included in discussions are the sub-kingdoms of Characene, Elymais and
Persis, and other areas under Parthian control.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/parthia-l
Sasan-L
Group focused on Sasanian numismatics and history, and its off-shoots;
such as, Hunnic, Hephthalite, Indo-Sasanian, Arab-Sasanian coinage, etc.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sasan-l
Sasanika
Group devoted to academic Sasanian Studies
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sasanika
By www.sasanika.com
Scythia
A place to discuss the history, mythology and culture of the Ancient
Scythians
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scythia
Seleukids
The purpose of this list is to discuss the history, arts, numismatics and
epigraphy of the hellenistic monarchies. The Seleukid kings are of special
interest but discussion of any of the monarchies is welcome.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seleukids
British Museum Oxus Hoard Image Gallery
The Australian National University, ArtServe: Art & Architecture
(2002)
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/england/london/museums/british_museum/hoards_treasures/oxus/
It is a collection of digitalized photographs and maps to support the teaching of history at the upper secondary school and university level. Ed.: Haines Brown - University of Alabama at Birmingham.
It contains:
The Hephthalites
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/hephthalites/hephthalite.html
Sogdiana
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/exhibit/sogdians/sogdians.html
Sogdiana Central Asia Art Gallery
Directory of Artists from Uzbekistan
http://www.artsogdiana.com/
Monuments of
culture and art of Kyrgyzstan
Ancient coins of Central Asia, Archaeological finds of Kyrgyzstan, The
applied art of Kyrgyzstan
Gallery of Private Collection, http://alwian.host.net.kg/Eng/index.htm
Figure of a goddess, green chlorite, marble and lapis
lazuli, Bactria or Margiana, circa 2300-2000 B.C., 3 3/4 inches high. It sold
for $72,000. The City Review - Sold Antiquities
http://www.thecityreview.com/s03santh.jpg
Parthia.Com
History, Geography, Coins, Art & Culture, Resources. Edited by Edward
C. D. Hopkins, 1998-2004
http://www.parthia.com
Coins of Central Asia
Sogdiana, Chach,
Ustrushana, Khwarezm, Northern Tokharistan, Ferghana, Semirechie
http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/index1.html
МОНЕТЫ
ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЙ АЗИИ (Monety Tsentral'noi Azii) [Russian]
http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/index1.html
Coins of Central
Asia
http://www.sogdcoins.narod.ru/english/index1.html
Early
Central Asian Kingdoms
http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/centralasia/centralasia.html
绸之路钱系列 (Silkroad Coins)
Including Bactrian, Kushan, Byzantine, Parthian,Sasanians,
Sasanians-Kushan, Sino-Koutcha, Dahae-YueShi, etc.) [Chinese]
http://www.coinet.net/sk16.htm
栗特钱(Sogdiana Coins)
Samarqand, Boukhara, Chach, Kesh, Khebud, Koshana, Maimargh, Khwaresm, Betik
Coins
http://www.coinet.net/sk19.htm
Iranian Languages and
Scripts
http://iranianlanguages.com/index.htm
Sogdian Language and Scripts
http://iranianlanguages.com/midiranian/sogdian.htm
Khwarezmian
Language and Scripts
http://iranianlanguages.com/midiranian/khwarezmian.htm
Bactrian Language and Script
http://iranianlanguages.com/midiranian/bactrian.htm
Escritura
Sogdiana [Español]
http://www.proel.org/alfabetos/sogdiano.html
Lengua Sogdiana [Español]
http://www.proel.org/mundo/sogdiano.htm
Silk Road
Atlas
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/maps/maps.html
Persici Sive Sophorvm Regni
Typvs. (Image of the Kingdom of the Persians or Sophies)
Ancient Map. Cartographic sources: Gastaldi 1564 Asia Minor, Ortelius' 1567 Asia
http://www.orteliusmaps.com/book/ort167.html
Map of Central Asia
according to the Armenian geography "Ashharacujc" (VII c. AD). Reconstruction
of S.T. Eremjan on the basis of Ptolemy's work.
Armenian sources on Central Asia, V-VII c. AD, L. Ter-Mkrtichjan
(Institute of Orientalistics, AS USSR, Moscow, 1979)
http://www.kroraina.com/armen_ca/map_casia.html
Central Asia in the Early Middle Ages
(Excerpts from "Srednjaja Azija v rannem srednevekov'e", ed. G. Brykina, M., 1999)
I. History of the regions: General information, 1. Northern Khorasan, 2. Khorezm, 3. Sogd, 4. Chach and Ilak, 5. Ferghana, Ethnic history, 6. Ustrushana, 7. Northern Tokharistan, 8. Upper Tokharistan, 9. Semirech'e, 10. Sir Darja. II. Coins of the regions: Introduction, Merv, Bukhara Sogd, Northern Tokharistan, Samarkand Sogd, Southern Sogd, Ustrushana, Chach, Semirech'e, Khorezm, More Images...
http://www.kroraina.com/ca/index.ht ml
Karavan Saray: About Uzbekistan
History & Culture, Archeology, Sightseeing, Useful information, Photo gallery
http://www.k-saray.com/uzbekistan. html
Uzbekistan - Rumbo.es [Español]
Información Práctica, Gastronomía, Situación y Geografía, Compras, Historia Gente y Costumbres, Arte y Cultura, Entretenimiento, Sitios de Interés, Transportes, Fotografías
http://www.rumbo.e s/guide/es/asia/uzbekistan/intro.htm
Tashkent
History: Ancient History (Ancient Khorezm, Ancient Bactrian Kingdom, New Stone, Copper and Bronze Ages, Kushan Kingdom, Kangju, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, The State of Seleucids, Alexander the Great in Central Asia), Middle Ages, Uzbek Khanates, Russian Conquest, Uzbek Soviet Republic, Prominent People, Historical Sigths, Historical Museums Science and Culture: Culture, Literature, Urban Planning, Science
http://www.tashkent.uz/cmi/section.htm?content_path=/articles/histo ry/ancient_history
Jesús Sánchez Jaén, Samarcanda, Una Perla en el Desierto
Artículo publicado en Historia16, nú 211, noviembre 1993 (Con notas y bibliografía) [Español]
http://www.andar ines.com/viajesyviajeros/samarcanda.html
Tan Wee Cheng's Travels in the Central Asian Republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Sogdiana and Sogdian Art
http://www.weecheng.com/si lk/tajik/sogdian.htm
HeritageNet-Central Asia - is a telecommunication network about historical, cultural and nature heritage of the Central Asia countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).
http://www.heritagenet.un esco.kz/remdefault.htm
Valeriy Petrosyants, A very brief history of Merv, Turkmenistan
The Ancient Merv, History of Merv [Siyakhat tourist company and hotel, Maps and Photos]
http://siyakhat.narod.ru/merv.html
Clio la Muse de l'Histoire [Francais]
Cités Caravaniéres du Proche-Orient
Scythes, Bactriane, Djarkutan, Shortughaï, Takht-i-Sangin, Bactres, Dilbergine Tepe, Begram, Graeco-Bactriens, Aï-Khanoum, Surkh Kotal, Carte des sites, Kouchan
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/spqr/clio.h tm
Hunt for Lost Bactrian Treasure
http://www.cais-soas.c om/CAIS/Newsdate=6Jan02b.htm
Turkmen diggers find royal mausoleum
Big News Network.com Thursday 6th May, 2004
http://feeds.bignew snetwork.com/?sid=f82bf5439dcdb90a
The Stamp Seal Mistery, The Pennsylvania Gazette
http://www.upenn.edu/gazett e/1101/hughes.html
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre Reports: Merv (Turkmenistan)
State Historical and Cultural Park Ancient Merv, Republic of Turkmenistan
Date 7 November 1996, ICOMOS, September 1999 [Pages: 9 - Languages: English, Francais]
http://whc .unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/886.pdf
Softstone in Arabia &Iran
A specialist workshop organised by The British Museum & the Society for Arabian Studies Wednesday 21st July 2004 Venue: Department of the Ancient Near East, The British Museum [Abstracts]
http://www.thebritish museum.ac.uk/ane/softstone.pdf
The Iron Age in the Iranian World
International Congress, Ghent, 17-20 november 2003. Ghent University Department of Languages and cultures of the Near East and North Africa and The Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels together with the Iran Heritage Foundation, London
Full list of Abstracts:
http://www.flwi.ugent .be/IronAgeInIran/abstract.htm
NEW DISCOVERIES AT ULUG DEPE AND THE IRON AGE IN SOUTHERN CENTRAL ASIA - R. Boucharlat & H.-P. Francfort (Maison de l'Orient & MAE Paris 10-Nanterre)
http://www .flwi.ugent.be/IronAgeInIran/abstracts/abstract5.htm
GRIFFIN, DRAGON AND DEER: MOVEMENT AND MOTIF IN FIRST MILLENNIUM BC CENTRAL ASIAN TEXTILE ART - I. Good (Peabody Museum, Harvard University)
http://ww w.flwi.ugent.be/IronAgeInIran/abstracts/abstract12.htm
David Christian. History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume I: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire.
The Blackwell History of the World. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. 464 pp. Plates, figures, maps, tables, bibliography, index. [Review]
http://w ww.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=24193939762367
Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma. Wilson, Peter Lamborn. (1999) [Review]
Thomas B. Roberts, Ph.D. and Paula Jo Hruby, Ed.D., Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy
http://www.csp.org/chre stomathy/plouging_the.html
I. M. Diakonoff, Eastern Iran Before Cyrus (Possible New Approches to the Problem)
[Summary of the Article] Source: History of the Iranian State and Culture (to the 2500th Anniversary of the Iranian State), Moscow, 1971, pp. 337-339.
http://ambarts.tripod.com/f iles/diakonoff.htm
Select Bibliography from Academic Journals and Abstracts on Ancient Central Asia, The Silkroad Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/toc. html
Frantz Grenet , The Pre-Islamic Civilization of the Sogdians (seventh century BCE to eighth century CE): A Bibliographic Essay (studies since 1986)
The Silkroad Fundation Newsletter Vol 1 No 2 December 2003
http://www.s ilk-road.com/newsletter/december/pre-islamic.htm
M. Nicolini-Zani, Christiano-Sogdica: An Updated Bibliography on the Relationship between Sogdians and Christianity throughout Central Asia and into China
http://www.tr ansoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/nicolini-zani.html
Frühe Reiternomaden Eurasiens (Early Eurasian Nomads)
Bibliographic notes (in German), with an index in English
http://mlucom6.u rz.uni-halle.de/orientarch/ca/nomads.htm
Select Bibliography on Buddhism in Western Central Asia
http://www.orientarc h.uni-halle.de/ca/bud/litera.htm
Sogdien
http://www.or ientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/tutorial/inf_sog1.htm
Fundorte
http://www.or ientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/tutorial/inf_sog2.htm
Chalkolithikum und Bronzezeit
http://www.ori entarch.uni-halle.de/ca/tutorial/inf_bz3.htm
Pendzhikent
http://www.or ientarch.uni-halle.de/ca/tutorial/inf_pen1.htm
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