Resources
Echoes of a Forgotten Past: Public Presentation
Reconstructing the history of the church of the East in Kazakhstan. A seminar presented by Dr. Mark Dickens at Agape Church in Almaty on the 20th of February 2018, hosted by the Department of Nestorian Studies.
Echoes of a Forgotten Past - Russian
Reconstructing the history of the church of the East in Kazakhstan. A seminar presented by Dr. Mark Dickens at the Kazakhstan Academy of Science in Almaty on the 23rd of February 2018, hosted by the Department of Nestorian Studies and the Institute of Archaeology. The Audio is the Russian translation of the seminar.
Unknown Kazakhstan №6 - Zharkent
A documentary for the Kazakh TV program, Unknown Kazakhstan, looking at the area of Zharkent, including a focus on the Nestorian Christian archaeological finds at Ili-Balyk.
The Society for the Exploration of Eurasia
http://www.exploration-eurasia.com is the website for the Society for the Exploration of Eurasia (SEE) in both English and German.
The Mongols in Syriac texts in the late 13th and early 14th century
by Mikko Vasko, 2006
Nestorian Stele
This documentary, presented by Martin Palmer, details the Nestorian Stele of the Assyrian Church of the East which was found in China. The Stele that was found in the 17th Century dates back to the 7th Century.
The Syriac Bible in Central Asia
This article is based on a talk given at the fifth "Christianity in Iraq" conference (April 5, 2008) by Mark Dickens - School of Oriental and African Studies.
Archeological Expertisa
Founded in 2006, Archeological Expertisa is the leading company for archaeological research and investigation in Kazakhstan.
During the reign of Patriarch Timothy I (780–823), the Church of the East continued to expand into Asia. Metropolitans were consecrated for various places to the east of the Patriarchal see in Baghdad. One of these was the enigmatic Metropolitan of the Turks, about whose location scholars have disagreed for decades.