It’s lonely out here in Tibet. The sun is shining down over a mountain and for miles around there is not a soul in sight. The sky is clear and at my feet I can see six layers of brown stones, about the size of baseballs, piled up by an unknown people.
These stone piles dot the landscape – only a few feet away I can see a pile of them shaped into what looks like a house with two or three rooms.
No, I’m not in Tibet. I’m also not reading an archaeological report, or even a looking at a virtual reconstruction. I’m immersed in a photographic panorama of an actual site in Tibet. The objects are real and were shot by a photographer – Tito Dupret – who was actually there.
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“This will be the beginning of a new era to express these fabulous pictures and sites around the world.”
The mountainous region of Arunachal Pradesh in India is located in the eastern Himalayas between Assam, Bhutan, Burma and the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Until recently it was little known or studied and access to the region was restricted. However, a collaborative research project undertaken by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Museum, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has been shedding new light on this area of great cultural diversity.
