Join us today for the Late- breaking Roundtable on Afghanistan via our livestream, which is organised as an initiative of the Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12). Date: 27 August 2021Time CEST: 11.15 – 12.45 CEST / 11.15 AM – 12.45 PM CESTTime JST: 18.15 – 19.45 JST / 6.15 PM – 7.45 PM JSTLivestream: https://icas.asia/rtafghanistan The Taliban takeover […]
National Gallery of Australia Returns 14 Objects to India – ARTnews.com The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra said on Thursday that it will return 14 works from its Asian art collection objects to India. Thirteen of them were purchased from Art of the Past, the Manhattan gallery led by Subhash Kapoor, who has been accused of leading […]
The Humboldt Forum is open on 20 July with six exhibitions. Humboldt Forum
On Friday 2 July 2021, Director-General Webber Ndoro was honoured to meet with H.E. Al-Dafar Al-Hamdani, Minister of Culture in Iraq, and Mr Zaid Al-Ani, First Secretary of the Embassy of Iraq in Rome. Zaki Aslan, Director, ICCROM-Sharjah Regional Office and Rohit Jigyasu, Project Manager, Programmes Unit, also attended online and in person, respectively. The […]
Polish team used remote sensing techniques to detect the building, the largest of its kind in the region, as well as a possible tomb of an archbishop. Archaeologists find ruins of vast Medieval Nubian cathedral in Sudan | The Art Newspaper
Paul Bucherer is the Director of the Afghanistan Institute and Museum (Bibliotheca Afghanica) in Switzerland. The Bibliotheca Afghanica museum-in-exile serves as a temporary home for artifacts that have been loaned to Mr Bucherer by Afghans and others outside the country for safekeeping. The entire collection will be repatriated to Afghanistan as soon as it is safe […]
Wednesday, June 16, 2021, from 10 am – 11:30 am (Los Angeles; 8 pm – 9:30 pm Amman) Online lecture The ancient histories of Palmyra (Syria), Petra (Jordan), and Hatra (Iraq) tell a story of cultural exchange: their citizens shared trade routes, built comparable monuments, and worshiped common local and regional gods. These cities’ universal […]
Some cultural heritage experts are hopeful; others are growing anxious about the coming departure of American and European troops from the battered country. As the Taliban rises, uncertainty looms for Afghanistan’s historic treasures (nationalgeographic.com)
The project aimed to analyze and interpret a substantial collection of a specific type of material culture which has been produced in Iran and Central Asia mainly during the Timurid period (c. 1370 to c. 1510). While only few examples from a secular context have survived, the bulk of material, mainly doors, grills (mashrabiyas), minbars […]
The tragic destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001, which was broadcast across the globe, led to a global recognition of the need to protect cultural heritage at risk. Commemorating 20 years since the destruction of two Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Persian art 