Matteo Compareti
- KAKRAK
KAKRAK, a Buddhist site comprised of a group of caves, in Bāmyān Province, Afghanistan, about three kilometers southeast of the…
- CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS xv. THE LAST SASANIANS IN CHINA
Information on those Sasanians who avoided the submission to the Arabs and lived in Central Asia or at the Tang…
- SASANIAN TEXTILES
SASANIAN TEXTILES AN ICONOGRAPHICAL APPROACH Classical, Islamic, and Chinese sources celebrate Sasanian textiles as a very precious commodity, but no…
- AFRĀSIĀB ii. Wall Paintings
AFRĀSIĀB ii. WALL PAINTINGS The Afrāsiāb wall paintings refer to 7th-century Sogdian murals, discovered in 1965 in the residential part…