About the Yale Silk Road DatabaseThe Silk Road, as an interconnected web of trade routes linking the ancient societies of Asia with those of the Subcontinent and the Near East, has contributed to the development of most of the world's great civilizations... Photographs included in this collection were taken during faculty site seminars in Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang Provinces in 2006, seminars in Sichuan and Yunnan during the summer of 2007, visits to Liao Dynasty sites in Shanxi, Liaoning, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia during the summer of 2008, a program along the Tarim Basin and in northern Xinjiang during the summer of 2009, and a program for educators in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Tibet Extension during the summer of 2010. Permission to publish any image from this collection in print or on the Web is granted at the discretion of the relevant copyright holder and requests may be forwarded to the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. Site technical questions and comments may be e-mailed to the Visual Resources Collection, Yale University.Yale Silk Road DatabaseYSRDThe Yale Silk Road Database presents over 11,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2010. Mimi Hall YiengpruksawanProfessor, History of ArtCouncil on East Asian StudiesThe Yale Silk Road Database is sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies' Silk Road Studies Project through major funding awarded to the Council's National Resource Center Title VI Grant from the United States Department of Education.Yale UniversityUnited States Department of EducationTo serve as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.Silk Road ImagesPresent images of major sites in the Silk Road region2013-10-05http://www.library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/yalesilkroad/index.htmlOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net