Over 9,000 artifacts related to Uzbekistan’s history and culture discovered abroad

Information on more than 9,000 household items, archaeological findings, various jewelry, manuscripts, documents, textiles, and musical instruments related to the history and culture of Uzbekistan stored in 40 countries has been compiled.

In 2022, scientific description of 330 cultural objects – 173 manuscripts, 157 museum exhibits – was determined in the direction of identification, study and delivery of copies of manuscripts related to the history and culture of the country preserved in foreign countries.

“Register of foreign manuscripts related to Uzbekistan. Volume 1” was published. The monographic research was published in 1,000 copies in Uzbek, English and Russian languages and presented to scientific and cultural institutions of the republic and about 40 countries. To date, the 2nd and 3rd volumes of this register and the scientific facsimile of Alisher Navoi’s unique manuscript “Badoye ul-bidoya” preserved in Turkey have been prepared for publication.

The first publication of the work “Habibullayev A. Ancestral Heritage: Manuscripts in the United States” under the initiative and leadership of the agency’s employee, doctor of philosophy, professor Roik Bakhodirov was another scientific success in 2022. These manuscripts belong to scientists and are stored in the libraries of higher educational institutions of the United States.

The publication contains the information obtained as a result of the study of the following 13 library funds, in which scientific descriptions of 556 manuscripts of 123 works written by 31 scientists are presented:

• at Princeton University – 278;
• at Yale University – 140;
• at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) – 51;
• Library of Congress (Washington, DC) – 27;
• at Columbia University – 16;
• at the University of Pennsylvania – 15;
• at Harvard University (Cambridge) – 13;
• in the National Library of Medicine (Washington, DC) – 11;
• 1 manuscript data from Haverford College, University of Utah, Stanford University, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and University of Iowa Library are provided.