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Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of forgotten manuscript archives and sand-buried cities in the twentieth century has brought to light thousands of manuscripts and artefacts. To date, textual content has largely been prioritised over physical objects and their materiality, but the material aspects of these objects are just as important. Focusing primarily on the material and non-textual, this volume presents studies on silver dishes, sealing systems, manuscripts, Buddhist paintings, and ceramics, all of which demonstrate the centrality of material culture in the study of the Silk Roads.

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Kelsey Granger, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. She focuses on material culture in seventh- to twelfth-century China with a particular interest in the commodification of the environment. Imre Galambos, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, is a specialist of medieval Chinese manuscripts, primarily focusing on material excavated from Dunhuang and Khara-khoto. He has published extensively on medieval Chinese manuscripts, approaching them from the perspective of codicology and palaeography.

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