Resources
This is a half-hour documentary surrounding the work at the Usharal (Ili-Balyk) site put together by Dr. Steve Gilbert:
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.
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.
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 Mongols in Syriac texts in the late 13th and early 14th century
by Mikko Vasko, 2006
Nestorian Christianity in Central Asia
This is a modified version of the original article by Mark Dickens, Independent Scholar and Educational Consultant, Canada and Uzbekistan
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. The audio is the Kazakh translation of the seminar.
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.
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.