Funds available for emergency conservation of documentary heritage – Prince Claus Fund
Passing on a funding opportunity by the Prince Claus Fund, which offers funding for documentary heritage that has come under ...
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Tag: epigraphy
News reports and information related to Southeast Asian epigraphy and the study of writing and ancient inscriptions.
See: documentary heritage, inscriptions, palm-leaf manuscripts
Mission to translate old Khmer scripture complete
Bangkok Post, 11 June 2017: A Thai kings gift of a Buddhist scripture to the Vatican is finally translated. The ...
Digitised Burmese manuscripts at the British Library
The British Library, 24 May 2017: Since 2013 the British Library has digitised some of the finest Burmese manuscripts in ...
Cambodia’s palm leaf manuscripts being lost to neglect and looting
From the Phnom Penh Post, 7 April 2017 Despite decades of efforts to preserve the Kingdom’s historic manuscripts, the majority ...
Video: Deciphering an inscription in Northeast Thailand
The Bangkok Post has a video story about a stone inscription discovered in Thailand's Nong Khai province. Nong Khai Inscription. ...
Lecture: Life of the Buddha in the oldest Thai illustrated manuscripts
Readers in Bangkok may be interested in this lecture happening this evening at the Jim Thompson House. Life of the ...
Kuthodaw Pagoda inscriptions to be restored
Stone inscriptions in Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay will be the subject of a restoration project jointly run bu the Myanmar ...
Scholars to read Myanmar’s ancient script an endangered species
The expertise to translate the ancient languages of Myanmar, including Pyu, Mon, Rakhine and Pali, is becoming increasingly rare as ...
Preserving poetry inscribed on Hue’s buildings
Conservators in Vietnam met recently in Hue to discuss the best ways to preserve the unique poetry carved on some ...
Earliest known inscription of ‘0’ is Cambodian
The author of the book 'Finding Zero' describes the earliest known inscription of the number '0' in the modern Arabic ...
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