Tabriz, the capital of East Azarbaijan Province, will host the third edition of the international conference on ‘Archeology and Conservation along Silk Road’.
“As one of the major historic cities on the trade route, Tabriz is preparing to host the third international conference,” Mehr News Agency quoted the scientific secretary of the conference, Adel Farhangi, as saying.
Farhangi, who is a specialist in heritage studies, did not mention the precise date for the event.
The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West, and stretching from the Korean Peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.
Trade on the Silk Road played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between civilizations.
China played host to the two earlier rounds of the conference. The first edition was held in 1993, co-organized by Getty Conservation Institute, China’s State Administration for Cultural Heritage and Dunhuang Academy.
The second one in 2014 was organized and funded by the Northwest University, China and the Eurasia-Pacific UniNet, Austria, and co-organized by the University of Applied Arts Vienna and was hosted by the School of Cultural Heritage of the Northwest University in Xi´an.
