During the past year the Museum's collection of Islamic art has been greatly enriched by several important purchases, gifts, and bequests. The bequest of twenty ceramics and two Persian rugs by Horace Havemeyer has already been discussed in a separate Bulletin article (May I957). One of the most notable additions was the Cora Timken Burnett Bequest of Persian miniatures and other art objects, w...

In the glaciated mountains of Upper Indus Basin Pakistan, glacier- and snowmelt- based irrigation systems have been established over several centuries to secure water for cultivation. However, these are now facing challenges, being sensitive climate change thus exposed resulting extreme events such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) flash floods, also difficult terrain access paths, male o...