Christmas and New Year Greetings

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The Ancient India and Iran Trust will be closed for Christmas and New Year from 23 December until 2 January 2017. It will re-open again on Tuesday 3rd January. We wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year with a reproduction of this Christmas card sent to Sir Harold Bailey in 1946 by the Norwegian Indologist Sten Konow (1867-1948). Konow had worked with the Central Asian explorer Sir Aurel Stein and the Sanskritist Rudolf Hoernle to decipher the newly discovered Central Asian texts in Khotanese, work which Bailey …

Action-packed 4th Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology

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by Danika Parikh, University of Cambridge December 2nd and 3rd saw the return of the Annual Allchin Symposium on South Asian Archaeology, now in its fourth year. After being hosted at the University of Durham in 2015, the Symposium returned to Cambridge and the Trust this month with an action-packed line up spanning South Asian archaeology from Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, from the Neolithic to modern perceptions of the past in Indian cinema. As with other years, the Symposium kicked off with a Friday evening keynote lecture. Roberta Tomber of …

'The Bazar of Athens' from Edward Dodwell: Views in Greece, London 1821, p. 51

AIIT: Lent Term 2017 Lecture Programme

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Lectures begin at 5.30pm. Refreshments from 5pm. All welcome. 27 January: Suraiya Faroqhi (Istanbul Bilgi University): Importing and marketing Iranian fabrics 10 February: Elizabeth Key Fowden (FAMES/Classics, University of Cambridge): Eastern Kings and Ancient Philosophers in Ottoman Athens 3 March: Special event for Friends of the Trust (Advance booking required: email info@indiran.org) Catherine Ansorge (University Library, Cambridge): The Reverend George Lewis and his collection of Persian manuscripts Lectures are held at: Ancient India & Iran Trust 23 Brooklands Avenue Cambridge CB2 8BG If you wish to attend the Friends’ event …

‘Restoration of the Palaces of the Western side of the platform at Nimroud’, lithograph from drawing by Baynes, supervised by James Fergusson, ca. 1850, from A.H. Layard, A second series of the monuments of Nineveh (London, 1853), plate 1

‘Nineveh’ in Bombay and Histories of Indian Archaeology

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In connection with her talk ‘Nineveh’ in Bombay and Histories of Indian Archaeology at the Ancient India & Iran Trust on 21 October, Sudeshna Guha has kindly allowed us to repost her article on the same subject which was originally published by Scroll.in on 13 December 2015 A little-known 19th-century history of “Nineveh” in Bombay provides a glimpse of the many new histories, which collections, and their visualisation and displays, allow us to establish. It also underlines the importance of noting the ways in which we establish historical evidence, and …