Central Asia

Dr. Rocco Rante is archaeologist at the Louvre Museum and has a Habilitation to direct PhD theses at the Sorbonne-Panthéon University. He heads the Franco-Uzbek Archaeological Mission in the Bukhara Oasis and the Franco-Iranian Archaeological Mission in Khorasan. He published several books, of which the most recent are the trilogy The Bukhara Oasis, vol. 1-3.

Hybrid event, in person at the Henry Welcome Building, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB2 1QH and online via Zoom. 

13:00 - 14:00 GMT (London time)

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Fragments of a wooden artefact were found in 1973 during the archaeological excavations at the settlement of Bidayik-asar near the Aral Sea (Kazakhstan), dated 4^th c. CE. The artefact was published as a fragment of an unknown wooden object in 1996.

In 2019-2022 a commemorative complex dedicated to Kutlug Elteris Khagan, the renovator of the Turkic Khaganate dynasty and founder of the Second Turkic Khaganate in 7th c. CE, was discovered by the International Turkic Academy and the Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Mongolia.

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Abstract

Abstract: In 2018, the undisturbed burial of an Iron Age Saka youth was discovered in East Kazakhstan. Furnished with astounding gold grave goods, it is only the second undisturbed burial of its kind to have been discovered on the territory of Kazakhstan. The inhumation was removed as a complete block, and brought to the East Kazakhstan Regional Museum of Local History to be excavated in minute detail. It is currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum as part of the Gold of the Great Steppe exhibition.