It's no wonder that the Mogao painters, illustrating the greatest of all Silk Road imports, infused their murals with an array of foreign elements, from pigments to metaphysics. "The caves are a ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

The idea of the Silk Road, as co-curators Sue Brunning ... One of the most extraordinary sights of the Silk Roads are the Mogao Caves, near Dunhuang in China, a point along the Hexi Corridor ...

Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, the Mogao Caves south-east of the Dunhuang oasis ... one of the oldest and most vivid scenes of cultural exchanges along the Silk Road, depicting a ...

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The Mogao Grottoes, twenty – five kilometers ... this was a pass on the northern route of the Silk Road. The remaining building is a well-preserved square structure, 24 meters from east to ...

On some of the murals inside the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province is the iconic image of flying apsaras, celestial beings draped in diaphanous attire and billowing ribbons.

The Mogao caves, a Buddhist treasure on the Silk Road Near the town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi desert, the Mogao caves - also called the “Thousand Buddha Grottoes” - are home to one ...

Dunhuang, a historical city in northwestern China's Gansu province, announced in Shanghai on March 20 that it will allocate funds totaling 35 million yuan ($4.83 million) in support of its convention ...