Resources
Archeological Expertisa
Founded in 2006, Archeological Expertisa is the leading company for archaeological research and investigation in Kazakhstan.
Echoes of a Forgotten Past
Reconstructing the history of the church of the East in Kazakhstan. A seminar presented by Dr. Mark Dickens at the Kazakhstan Academy of Science in Almaty on the 23rd of February 2018, hosted by the Department of Nestorian Studies and the Institute of Archaeology.
Unknown Kazakhstan №6 - Zharkent
A documentary for the Kazakh TV program, Unknown Kazakhstan, looking at the area of Zharkent, including a focus on the Nestorian Christian archaeological finds at Ili-Balyk.
During the reign of Patriarch Timothy I (780–823), the Church of the East continued to expand into Asia. Metropolitans were consecrated for various places to the east of the Patriarchal see in Baghdad. One of these was the enigmatic Metropolitan of the Turks, about whose location scholars have disagreed for decades.
The Mongols in Syriac texts in the late 13th and early 14th century
by Mikko Vasko, 2006
This is a half-hour documentary surrounding the work at the Usharal (Ili-Balyk) site put together by Dr. Steve Gilbert:
Echoes of a Forgotten Past - Russian
Reconstructing the history of the church of the East in Kazakhstan. A seminar presented by Dr. Mark Dickens at the Kazakhstan Academy of Science in Almaty on the 23rd of February 2018, hosted by the Department of Nestorian Studies and the Institute of Archaeology. The Audio is the Russian translation of the seminar.
Nestorian Christianity in Central Asia
This is a modified version of the original article by Mark Dickens, Independent Scholar and Educational Consultant, Canada and Uzbekistan
This is Dr Kevin White's PhD thesis which is a comprehensive survey of archaeological finds related to Syro-Aramaic Christianity in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.