Author Archives: Susan Whitfield

Amluk Dara Stupa

Posted on December 28, 2017

Once rising almost as high as the Pantheon in Rome, the large stupa of Amluk Dara in the Swat valley, Pakistan, is still an imposing building. Yet it is was only one among many such Buddhist structures built in Udyāna, … Continue reading →

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Feeble Silkworms and Flightless Moths

Posted on September 26, 2017

Female moths of the Bombyx mori (left) and Bombyx mandarina (right). Credit: Markus Knaden, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. The Bombyx mori moth is well-known as producer of the silk cultivated in China for thousands of years whose technology … Continue reading →

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Early Exhibitions of the Collections of Aurel Stein: Part 1: 1910

Posted on September 1, 2017

his is the first of a series of posts to list twentieth century exhibitions which have included Central Asian manuscripts, paintings, coins and other artefacts from the collections of the archaeologist M. Aurel Stein (1862–1943). Continue reading →

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