Culture
Six national academies have agreed to study the Jochi Ulus and steppe history together, with fieldwork, a digital archive and an interactive atlas planned.
Culture
Officials in Aktau discussed protection of five Mangystau heritage sites and an ICOMOS–IUCN assessment visit to Ustyurt scheduled for 11–17 October. Here is why an inventory, a five-year plan and visitor management matter — and why the visit is not a UNESCO listing.
Culture
Researchers presented volumes III–V of Kurbangali Khaliduly’s work at Kazakhstan’s National Library on 6 October and discussed transcription and translation. Why does access to the original matter?
Culture
Experts from Kazakhstan, the US, Finland, Latvia, Georgia and Uzbekistan met in Almaty to discuss the future of technical archives. The challenge is to digitise drawings, use AI for discovery and preserve the authenticity and evidential value of every source.
Culture
History is written by the victors is only half true. More often it is written by chance: what reaches us is not the most important but the most durable. We know antiquity from a few per cent of texts that survived fire and mould — brilliant books burned, mediocre ones lasted because there were many copies.
