Tang Center for Silk Road Studies

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UC Berkeley’s Tang Center for Silk Road Studies Joins New Archaeological Project in Uzbekistan

October 29, 2024

An international team of scholars has launched a three-way collaborative project in Uzbekistan's high mountain regions to shed new light on the economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of Turkic communities that thrived across Central Asia from the 6th to the 11th centuries.

Building on a groundbreaking LiDAR scanning project recently published in...

Beloved Professor Leaves Lasting Legacy: Bequest to Support the Study of the Pre-modern Indic World for Future Generations of Scholars

October 3, 2024

The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (TCSRS) is deeply honored to announce a generous bequest by UC Berkeley Art History Professor Joanna Gottfried Williams. The Juggernaut endowment is intended to support the teaching and study of the art and archaeology of the pre-modern Indic world (to include South, Southeast, and Central Asia) at the University of California,...

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