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Akhbarat Archive
Here you can find the Royal Asiatic Society’s collection of Akhbars, or court papers/newsletters, documenting the transactions of the court…
Busts
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The Royal Asiatic Society has a small collection of busts, depicting significant figures in the history of the Society and…
East Asian Art
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The Society has an important collection of art from East Asia, particularly China and Japan, with many beautiful and fascinating…
Nineveh Excavation
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The footage dates from the late 1920s/early 1930s and shows excavations in Iraq at the mound of Kouyunjik, scenes in…
Photographic Collections
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The Royal Asiatic Society has almost 100 different collections of photographs, containing several thousand images, dating back to the middle…
Portraits
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The RAS collections include a large number of portraits, depicting Orientalist scholars and significant figures from the historical counter between…
Snakes and Ladders
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The Society’s collection includes two rare, early versions of Snakes and Ladders, a game which originated in ancient India and…
South Asian Manuscripts
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Here you can see online reproductions of over 400 manuscripts from the Society’s South Asian manuscript collections, many of which…
Thomas Manning Archive
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Thomas Manning was born in Broome, Norfolk on 8th November, 1772, the second son of Reverend William Manning, rector of…
Thomas Manning’s travels in Tibet
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This is a recording of Sir John Gielgud as Thomas Manning, reading from Manning’s Narrative of his travels in Tibet….