A talk event was held to celebrate the launch of the Teikyo University Silk Road Book Series

On Friday, March 28, 2025, a talk event was held at Kinokuniya Shinjuku Main Branch (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) to commemorate the launch of the Teikyo University Silk Road Series, with Professor and Director Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Teikyo University Yamauchi Kazuya, on the theme of "Digging, Reading, and Talking about the Silk Road."

In April 2016, our university formed the Teikyo University Silk Road Academic Research Team, headed by Professor Yamauchi. The team is focusing on academic research on the Silk Road, a route of exchange between civilizations that ran from east to west across the Eurasian continent, and is conducting excavation surveys of Suyab (Ak-Beshim ruins, Kyrgyzstan), a trading city on the Silk Road and once the westernmost point of the Tang Dynasty.
This talk event was held to commemorate the publication of the "Teikyo University Silk Road Series," which summarizes the results of research to date. Professor Yamauchi talked about how he entered the world of archaeology, his encounter with Silk Road research, anecdotes about excavation surveys, and his thoughts as an editor on the launch of this series. Professor Yamauchi said, "Archaeological research is a place where people meet, and I have been able to conduct research through many connections so far." He continued, "Ak Beshim is thought to be located on the border between Western Asian culture and East Asian culture. So far, the remains of the Christian Eastern Church and the Tang Dynasty military base of Suiye Town have been excavated. In the future, I hope that the remains of the Dayun Temple, which is said to have been built in Shoshu by Empress Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty, will also be discovered." The event was very lively. Please pick up the "Teikyo University Silk Road Series," which is full of the charm of research on the Silk Road.

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