Japan – Royal Asiatic Society

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Siebold’s Japan and Cataloguing the Elephant Volumes
One of the Society’s major long-term projects is the retrospective cataloguing of its printed collections. The Society’s library contains over 50,000 books, journals, and pamphlets, most of which were acquired in the…
13 September 2024
Collections, RAS Collections, RAS Lecture Series, Recent
Professor Simon Kaner: The Rehabilitation of Myth in the Archaeology of Ancient Japan and Korea
Excavated Remains of huge pillars at the Izumo Grand Shrine in Shimane Prefecture reawakened interest in the early history of this important monument and the interface between archaeology, history and myth in…
20 September 2021
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Cuneiform
This Friday (5th March) marks the anniversary of the death of the Orientalist and former President of the Society, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson: 1810-1895. In 1827 he was sent, aged 17,…
5 March 2021
Archives, Book Launches, Cataloguing, cuneiform, lectures, Library, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

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