Full text PDF of The Silk Road, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Winter 2006-7)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From the Editor

ARTICLES

News from Ancient Afghanistan
Nicholas Sims-Williams

Bamiyan 2006: The Fifth Excavation Campaign of Prof. Tarzi’s Mission
Zemaryalai Tarzi

Balkh and the Plains of Turkestan
Frank Harold, with photographs by Ruth Harold

Further Evidence for the Interpretation of the ‘Indian Scene’ in the Pre-Islamic Paintings at Afrasiab (Samarkand)
Matteo Compareti

Mapping Early Buddhist Sites in Western Tibet: Recent Findings from Tsamda County, China
Karl E. Ryavec

Han Lacquerware and the Wine Cups of Noin Ula
François Louis

Trade and Commerce on the Silk Road after the End of Mongol Rule in China, Seen from Chinese Texts
Ralph Kauz

Hunting Hounds along the Silk Road: Which Way Did They Go?
Sir Terence Clark

A Thousand Years on the Silk Road: Epic Poetry and Music from the Kyrgyz Republic
Rysbai Isakov, Akylbek Kasabolotov, and Helen Faller