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Gudongtan - the antique sand and its legend

Gudongtan lies 75 km south west of Dunhuang city, near the old Yangguan Pass. Many people who have visited the site luckily found coins, beads, jadeware, bronze...

The Mogao Grottoes visit info in 2017

In order to provide better service to travelers and travel agencies in 2017, Mogao Grottoes Management Office now issue the notice as bellow:1.Visit ModeMogao G...

Secrets of the Esoteric Empire: The Tangut Script

The people of the Western Xia were pious Buddhists and Confucians. They not only left behind beautiful art in the Mogao and Yulin caves, but also a beautiful yet eye-wateringly complex script. The two are interconnected in exploring the secrecy of tantric Buddhism, which was the ...

Mystery Lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth. ...

Lyrics to The Silk Road

I pass valleys, a way among different civilizations / Among different cultures, valleys, mountains under the heat of the red sun / If only you wish, I would be a chasm / If only you wish, I would be a river / I'll hear this call under sand's thorns / But I'll overcome my hard way...

The Second Central Asian Expedition of Aurel Stain(1906-1908)

In the final years of the 19th century more and more manuscripts – both in known and in unknown scripts and languages – as well as other findings surfaced from the region called at that time Eastern or Chinese Turkestan. They stirred up a keen interest among scholars, but thei...

The Silk Road: Spreading Ideas and Innovations

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was invented during the Han dynasty, probably just at the time the Silk Road trade was b...

Transportation Along The Silk Road

Silk Road goods carried overland were not loaded onto camels and carried from China to Europe. Goods made their way westward in a piecemeal way, with a lot trading and loading and unloading at the caravan stops along the way.
Different caravans carried goods during different se...

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Gudongtan - the antique sand and its legend

The Mogao Grottoes visit info in 2017

Secrets of the Esoteric Empire: The Tangut Script

Mystery Lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert

Lyrics to The Silk Road

The Second Central Asian Expedition of Aurel Stain(1906-1908)

The Silk Road: Spreading Ideas and Innovations

Transportation Along The Silk Road

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China Southern Airlines added a number of new routes to Kash

A bowl of malatang makes Gansu Tianshui take over "Erbin"

The apricot Blossom Festival of Turpan will be held in Toksu

The database of Dunhuang Relics was completed and put into u

Direct flights from Lanzhou to Hong Kong will begin in mid-A

Maijishan Grottoes photographed in 1956

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