Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves: Top Photos

A desert oasis where a thousand years of Silk Road pilgrims left sacred art in the cliffs

This scroll fragment is made of a sheet of fine yellow paper to which a small blank piece of paper (the only extant portion of what would have been the protective flap) is still attached. On the vers
This scroll fragment is made of a sheet of fine yellow paper to which a small blank piece of paper (the only extant portion of what would have been the protective flap) is still attached. On the… © International Dunhuang Project, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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