The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert …
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of B…
Ancient seals say much about people, their names, preferred styles and self-esteem. Over many decades, Aman ur Rahman has built a large collection of seals from North-Western Pakistan, which were p…