The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.
Tens of thousands of images along with catalogues, translations, historical photographs, archaeological site plans and much more are already freely available to all on the IDP DATABASE (add your search term in the box to the left or go to Advanced Search). This multilingual website and database is hosted by IDP's members in Britain, China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
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What's New
IDP News No. 31, Spring/Summer 2008
The latest issue of the IDP Newsletter is now available to read and download.
IDP-CREA: Cultural Routes of Eurasia
IDP-CREA is a collaboration between six IDP partners in Europe (from the UK, Hungary, France, and Germany) and three associate partners from China with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. It will significantly expand IDPs resources to include a French interface, more images and data, educational web pages and Google Earth layers illustrating the remarkable tales of the European explorers, archaeologists and scholars who travelled to Chinese Central Asia in the early years of the twentieth century.
Further details of IDP-CREA partners and activities can now be found on a IDP-CREA website.
What's On
Click here to see details of Conferences, Lectures, Exhibitions and other events.
Site Info
- Site last revised: October 2008.
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Site Credits
- Website design by Vic Swift of IDP.
- Database development and web integration by Michael Kaye of sendmetospace with additional support for Chinese version by Mark Mitchenall, using 4D database software and Active4D.
- General text written by Susan Whitfield with additional input from other members of IDP staff and translation by IDP staff in China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
- Some areas of the site such as Educational Projects, Resources, Research and Conservation Papers and My IDP projects are individually authored and accredited. IDP is not responsible for their content.
