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The lecture draws attention to a relatively new international and inter-academy project on textual, epigraphical and archaeological sources relating to Chinas contacts with the Ancient Mediterranean World.The lecture will showcase a selection of its outcomes so far, viz.a series of monographs as well as a website containing on-line collections of texts and translations (both literary and epigraphical).It will also demonstrate how the compilation of a multilingual gazetteer on Places and Peoples of Central Asia for the project has already helped to advance our ability to identify Western toponymns (place-names) and ethnic terms in Chinese sources of the Han and Tang periods.