Useful links

International museums and collections

Museo delle Civiltà, Roma

The British Museum

Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet

State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan

National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan

Übersee Museum, Bremen 

Taxila Museum

Smithsonian Institute

National Museum of Iran

The Field Museum

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, The University of Chicago

Musée du Louvre

Royal Ontario Museum 

Research centres and institutions  

ISMEO – The International Association or Mediterranean and Oriental Studies

Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan – ISMEO – Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice

Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan – ISMEO

Istituto Internazionale di Cultura Kurda

Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission in Fars of ICAR-Shiraz University-University of Bologna 

Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l’Asia

Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan – Sapienza University of Rome

PAST – Public Archaeology and Social Transmission, Cultural Heritage Department, Bologna University

Online databases 

Ghazni project – Buddhist and Islamic Archaeological data from Ghazni, Afghanistan

Haḍḍa Archéo Database  

International Dunhuang Programme: The Silk Road Online

Digital Gandhara – Harvard FAS CAMlab

DiGA – Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts: A project for the preservation and the study of the Buddhist art of Pakistan

The Helmand Sistan Project 

Useful online resources

Toyo Bunko Digital Archive

The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian art