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

November 20, 2025

Recently highlighted in Smithsonian Magazine (December 2025)

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...

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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