almost a thousand miles from the ancient capital at Xi'an. All merchants, pilgrims, and foreign emissaries traveling Silk Road routes had to pass through Dunhuang before entering or leaving China.
Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...
This ancient city seventy kilometers west of Dunhuang City used to be a pass ... this was a pass on the northern route of the Silk Road. The remaining building is a well-preserved square structure ...
This segment passed through Lanzhou, Wuxi, Dunhuang, and Yumen (the famous Jade Gate ofantiquity ... Several times over the long history of the Silk Road, trade shifted to this maritime route when ...
For US scholar Neil Schmid, the silk road melting pot makes a 'perfect' platform for modern cultural exchanges The ancient city of Dunhuang, which for centuries welcomed Western merchants ...
A porcelain painting art exhibition themed on Dunhuang mural art opened at Yuancun Workers Cultural Palace in Guangzhou's ...
Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across ... The hoard in the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, west of the Tarim Basin, included documents in more than 20 ...
Traveling along the Silk Road from Central Asia ... scores to fill a significant void in pipa performance history. "While numerous Dunhuang pipa score translations exist, their musical ...
The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) and Dunhuang Academy​ have signed a strategic partnership to expand cultural, touristic, ...
Dunhuang has long been a cultural crossroads on the ancient Silk Road, and the Mogao Caves, with their history dating back to 366 AD, represent a living testament to that heritage. Until now ...