Since 2015, the journal “Written Monuments of Orient” has been published by the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (founded as the Asiatic Museum in 1818) of the Russian Academy of Sciences as an English-language version of the periodical “Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka”. The journal publishes articles, which are covering theoretical and practical problems of studying written heritage of the peoples of the Asia. 

The journal “Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka”.  was founded in 1970 through the efforts of the staff of the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (now the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and came out until 1987 as an annual publication. In 2004, the publication was revived as a biannual journal accepting material mainly in Russian.