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Left: 1907 photograph of the Xi'an Stele, on its turtle (Bixi) pedestal. Right: A Nestorian tombstone from Quanzhou. Earlier this year, scientists announced that the Black Death had originated in the ...
A recently discovered site may shed new light on historical research into the Nestorian Church, which is believed to be the earliest Christian movement to spread the Gospel in China. A niche in a ...
Arriving out of the Western desert in a.d. 635, a group of Nestorian Christians, led by the monk Aluoben, entered the Chinese capital of Chang An (modern Xian) and were welcomed by the Tai Zong ...
Christianity in the world’s most populous country may be a lot older than anybody imagined. When telling the story of Christianity in China, most westerners begin with missionaries such as Jesuit ...
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 12, No. 1/2 (Oct., 1895 - Jan., 1896), pp. 118-125 (8 pages) ...
A restoration of the original silk painting of a missionary bishop of the Church of the East, now in the British Museum, London, discovered by Sir Aurel Stein at Tun-huang, western China, in 1908. It ...
After two years of excavation, a batch of important cultural relics – including a well-preserved jade cross – was unearthed at the relics site of a Nestorian monastery in Turpan, northwest China's ...
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