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Abstract/Sommario: Epigraphical studies are very important in research on Chinese history in general, but they are particularly relevant in research on religious history during the Tang dinasty, and are indispensable in studies on Tang dinasty Christianity. In 1990s Chine scholars have examinated some tomb epitaphs of foreigners who lived in China in that period, and they found precious indications of the presence of Chritians among the Persian and Central Asian peoples who had settled in China: these st ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Abstract/Sommario: In the last few years one of the most exciting discoveries in Indian epigraphy is the corpus of Brahmi inscriptions from the Hoq Cave on the island of Sukutra (Yemen), situated 320 km. away from the African coast. As early as the first century AD the imprtance of Suqutra as an intermediary station in sea-trading activitie between the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean world is clearly attested. From that time onwards we possess continuos evindence of the presence of Indians on t ...; [Leggi tutto...]