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Over the 23 years of its existence, the Institute has issued more than 60 scientific publications that have become the result of the scientific and research activities of the Institute. In addition, IICAS has been publishing the journal IICAS for more than 10 years. The journal is published twice a year in Russian and English, and is on the list of the Higher Attestation Commission of Uzbekistan. All publications of the Institute are distributed free of charge and are available to everyone. IICAS, independently or in cooperation with UNESCO, organizes international scientific conferences in which dozens of leading scientists from Central Asia and the world have already taken part. Many of the IICAS publications are bilingual and are prepared in English and Russian.


The book is published as part of the international project ‘Iconographic Symbolism and Socio-Religious Background of the Worldly Mission of Buddha Siddhartha as Represented in Gandhara Sculptures', initiated by the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS).The publication is addressed to specialists, university students, and a wide range of readers interested in the history of our region, in general, and Buddihsm, Buddihst art and its symbolism, in particular.

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Selungur is the oldest monument of the history of the material culture of Fergana

ISBN: 978-9943-357-61-7;
Era: Krakhmal K.A.;
Country: Uzbekistan;

The publication presents the results of complex interdisciplinary studies of the evolutionary development of nature during the Cenozoic, a geological stage that is closely related to the origins of the history of the formation of man as an anthropological type at the northern slopes of High Mountain Asia and the Fergana region in particular.Selungur Cave is located on the western outskirts of Aidarken town in Kadamjay district of Batken region, the Fergana valley, at the foot of Eshme-Too ridge, and is a registered cultural site of the Kyrgyz Republic.Based on the results of research, analysis of file data and publications on plate tectonics, paleontology, biogeography, anthropology, archeology, the chronostratigraphic stages of the history of the evolutionary formation of nature and society in the early anthropogenesis and the preceding geological periods were determined.

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Experience of Scientific Restoration and Conservation of Historic and Cultural Monuments in Central Asia

ISBN: 978-9943-357-59-4;
Era: L.V. Dubrovskaya;
Country: Kazakhstan;

The publication offers an overview of the key activities related to the study and conservation of cultural heritage monuments of Kazakhstan, carried out by experts of the Research and Experimental Laboratory (NIEL) of  the Research and Development Institute of Monuments of Material Culture for over thirty years. Materials collected through the study of some monuments of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have also been presented.

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Gandharan Sculpture from Nimogram (Swat)

ISBN: 978-9943-357-57-0;
Era: Sadeed Arif;
Country: Uzbekistan;

The book is published as part of the international project ‘Archaeology and Cultural History of Nimogram: a case study of Buddhist site in Swat Valley, Pakistan’, initiated by the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) to explore the Buddhist art of Nimogram. The publication presents a catalog of sculptures with distinctive features among all the famous Buddhist deities.The publication is addressed to specialists, university students, and a wide range of readers interested in the history of our region.

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