Digital Silk Road

Guideline for submission is modified for people who are interested in Silk Road.

English version was added.

The site is renewed, and we added "Silk Road Tour" and "Chronological Map."

The site is renewed, and we added short cinemas and panorama images of the Heritage of Bamiyan.

The site is open to the public.

A databse on representative Buddhist caves in China, namely Dunhuang Mogao Caves, Bezeklik Caves, Kizil Caves, is released.

This page summarizes various activities on 3D models in the project.

A Web site that summarizes outreach activities of the project is released (in Japanese). At this moment, the outreach activity focuses on Senga Silk Road.

New photographs are added.

Website is renewed.

The site is open to the public. More photographs will be added.

On the 5th anniversary of Bam earthquake, the Website for disseminating the outcome of research is released, in addition to the existing website, Citadel of Bam, Iran.

18 books are added, and the total amount is 110 books, 27,326 pages.

The database is open to the public. The number of books is 27 with 5,623 pages.

English translation of "Silk Road in Rare Books" for all 10 stories are completed.

"Silk Road in Rare Books" is now available in English. We are planning to translate two stories every month.

"Discovery of Civilizations of Central Asia" has started with the first story by Lin Meicun (in Chinese and Japanese).

"Silk Road in Rare Books" has started with the first story (in Japanese).

The website is released.

NII Open House will be held. Digital Silk Road Project will give presentations and demonstrations.

"Jobs at the project" started. Please find the link at the "Overview" on the right side.

The website is renewed.

The website is opened to the general public.

The site is open to the public (only in Japanese).

Maps for Google Earth are increased, and a simple 3D model of Bezeklik Caves is built for Google Earth.

Old maps of "Innermost Asia" can now be seen on Google Earth.

"Blue Marble Images of Silk Roads" is now open. And historical map collection can now be viewed smoothly on Google Earth.

The site is open to the public.

We put a report on virtual reality.

We started the collection and dissemination of data about the Citadel of Bam, Iran which was almost completely destroyed by the Iranian Earthquake on December 2003.

The site is preliminary open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese.

The site is open to the public.

The site is open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese, but may deal with multilingual terms in the future.