1601, 2015

Bridgeman Education – our new image database

By Jiyeon Wood|January 16, 2015|Art and Archaeology, Unknown|0 comments

Have you tried new image database in SOAS Library? Bridgeman Education (follow on Twitter at @BridgemanEd) is an online educational image resource to use in learning, teaching and scholarly research. The database includes over 650,000 copyright cleared images sourced from the world’s major museums, galleries, contemporary artists and private collections. The database provides access to the visual culture from ancient time through to Modern and Contemporary art and architecture. Furthermore, it provides

0412, 2014

New online content from British Institute for the Study of Iraq

By Mary Fisk|December 4, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq continues to make complimentary copies of selected publications available to individuals, libraries and institutions as PDF downloads (single copy for personal use only) 36 documents are now freely available. Click here to access the lists The freely available works are: The Old Babylonian tablets from Tell al-Rimah / Dalley et al. (1978) Fifty years of Mesopotamian discovery: the work of the British

1410, 2014

Art and Archaeology – September 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 14, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Towards a new cultural cartography : Sharjah Biennial 11 March meeting 2013 / [editor, Karen Marta English editor, Media Farzin translation, Ismail Al Rifai]. This is not art : activism and other ‘not-art’ / Alana Jelinek. Surrealism and the exotic / Louise Tythacott. Interwoven globe : the worldwide textile trade, 1500-1800 / edited by Amelia Peck with contributions by Amy Bogansky … [et al.]. Indian and Islamic works of art

1909, 2014

Exploring the World of Shan Manuscripts

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|September 19, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, Art and Archaeology, South East Asia|0 comments

In my previous blog post, An Introduction to the World of Shan Manuscripts, I wrote “the Shans created manuscripts in their own unique styles, features and formats.” For this post, I would like to extend my writing on or along the line of the ‘features’ of Shan manuscripts. To start with, it is worth noting that many Shan manuscripts were ended up in the archives and special collections in the

0109, 2014

Opening up your research: a guide to self-archiving

By David Pearson|September 1, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Financial and Management Studies, Gender, History, Information Literacy, Japan, Korea, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

Making your research available on open access services increases citation and helps ensure greater impact, argues Deborah Lupton. In this post she has advice for sociologists in particular on different ways to self-archive, formatting and how to overcome barriers such as complex copyright legislation. Read the full article here. Deborah Lupton is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. She blogs at This Sociological Life and tweets @DALupton and is currently writing

2008, 2014

Zoroastrianism in China?

By Mary Fisk|August 20, 2014|Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Religions|0 comments

Image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#mediaviewer/File:Faravahar.png Typically Zoroastrian tombs have been discovered on the remote Pamir Plateau in the Xinjiang Uygur region of China. Archaeologists have dated these to 2500 years ago, which would make these the earliest evidence of the Zoroastrian religion so far discovered outside of the ancient Persian Empire and (if verified) raises controversial issues over the origins of the faith Click here to watch a video (in English) from CCTV

2008, 2014

Cities in the Ancient Near East: Ömür Harmanşah discusses his recent book

By Mary Fisk|August 20, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

In this article on the ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) blog, Ömür Harmanşah discusses how he came to write Cities and the shaping of memory in the Ancient Near East, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, and also looks at concepts of architectural and urban space in more modern times (with a particular focus on Ankara) Click here to go to the Library catalogue, where you will also find

1508, 2014

Coptic bibliographies (Macquarie University)

By Mary Fisk|August 15, 2014|Art and Archaeology, History, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

Interested in Coptic language and history? The Coptic Studies department at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) had put together a “traditional” bibliography covering Egyptian history in the first millennium C.E., Coptic language and dialects and Coptic art and archaeology for their staff and students Please note that Coptic Bibliographies does not contain links to full-text. Some external links to book reviews etc. have been added. Click here to access Coptic Bibliographies

2907, 2014

Mesopotamian mathematics & cuneiform tablets

By Mary Fisk|July 29, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Cuneiform writing was devised initially for the purpose of keeping accounts, and for the first few centuries, it was used almost entirely for book-keeping. ORACC (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus) at the University of Pennsylvania has added transcriptions and translations of around 1000 cuneiform mathematical tablets to its database. The text and editions on this site have been made available by Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge), one of the founders

0206, 2014

Art and Archaeology – May 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 2, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Desert road archaeology in ancient Egypt and beyond / edited by Frank Förster & Heiko Riemer. Art of merit : studies in Buddhist art and its conservation : proceedings of the Buddhist Art Forum 2012 / edited by David Park, Kuenga Wangmo and Sharon Cather. De la Chine aux arts décoratifs : l’art chinois dans les collections du musée des arts décoratifs / Béatrice Quette. The lost century : Japanese