ELTE Roman World and the Far East Research Group

ELTE Roman World and the Far East Research Group

The ELTE Roman World and the Far East Research Group is an interdisciplinary project founded by the Eötvös Loránd University Excellence Fund that belongs to the Confucius Institute.

It aims to develop an understanding of the relations between the Roman world, Southeast Asia, and China and to facilitate comprehensive and synthetized research that includes written texts, a complex database of archaeological data (both Roman and related materials), and a theoretic framework. The Research Group intends to shed new light on the different networks and communities linking the Roman world to the Far East. Within the framework of this project, relevant archaeological materials from and textual sources about the regions of Southeast Asia and China will be compared, and the possible reasons behind the appreciation of Roman and Roman-like artefacts in the above-mentioned communities will be analyzed.