Kazuya YAMAUCHI 山内 和也
Research Keywords
- Silk Road
- Central Asia
- Archaeology
- Cultural Heritage
- Ak-Beshim
- Bamiyan
- Iran
STAFF DETAIL研究者詳細
Professor, Director of the Reseach Institute of Cultural Properties, Teikyo University
| Researchmap Link | https://researchmap.jp/K-yamauchi2016 |
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| Self introduction | I specialize in the archaeology, history and cultural history of the Silk Road. After completing the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University, I studied ancient Iranian culture and language at the Graduate School of Humanities, University of Tehran. The destruction of two large Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in March 2001 led to my involvement in the protection of Bamiyan's cultural heritage up to the present day. The activities in Bamiyan has been a springboard for international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage protection in the countries along the Silk Road. At the same time, I also supported the registration of the Silk Road as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which bore fruit in the form of the Silk Road being inscribed on the World Heritage List. Since becoming a professor at the Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Teikyo Universit in 2016, I have conducted excavations at the Ak Beshim site in the northern part of the Kyrgyz Republic and have achieved significant results. |
| Message to students | The Silk Road is known as a trade ‘road’ linking Eurasia from east to west and north to south. Not only that, but the Silk Road was not just a route for the transmission of ‘goods’, but also for the transmission of technology and religion. It was also a road where people themselves came and went, and a stage for exchanges and contact between people. Join us to learn about the history and culture of this Silk Road and the dynamism that the Silk Road world possessed. |