Resources
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.
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.
Read about the recent excavations in the ancient city of Ili-Balyk. This article was published in the online journal Vox Populi, by Journalist Vyatoslav Antonov following the excavations in July 2016 near Zharkent in South-East 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.
This is a half-hour documentary surrounding the work at the Usharal (Ili-Balyk) site put together by Dr. Steve Gilbert:
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.
Echoes of a Forgotten Past
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 Mongols in Syriac texts in the late 13th and early 14th century
by Mikko Vasko, 2006
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.