The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, a hub of ancient Chinese Buddhist art and spirituality, fell victim to extensive looting in the early 20th century. Today, the priceless relics taken from this sacred site ...

In the first three quarters of 2024, Dunhuang received 19.53 million tourists, a 25 percent increase year-on-year. Dunhuang ...

More than 1,500 years ago, followers of Buddhism started painting art inside a string of caves, threading through the desert of northwestern China. In some cases, they chiseled elaborate statues ...

Foreword / Timothy P. Whalen and Thomas Gaehtgens -- The Dunhuang cave temples at Mogao / Neville Agnew and Marcia Reed -- The Buddhist cave temples of Dunhuang: art, spirituality, cultural heritage / ...

"Dunhuang's preservation efforts extend far beyond the sculptures and murals within the caves. It also places great emphasis ...

BEIJING, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hidar Yousef is thrilled to see the famed Mogao Caves and learn about how cutting-edge technologies are used to help preserve the UNESCO World Heritage site. "It ...

"Constructed over a millennium from the fourth to fourteenth centuries CE near Dunhuang, an ancient border town along the Silk Road in northwest China, the Mogao Caves comprise the largest, most ...

Deep within a network of caves lining the shores of the Dunhuang oasis in Gansu Province, thousands of 1,600-year-old Buddhist sculptures sit in silent decay. Mogao Grottoes [Photo/Xinhua] The Mogao ...

BEIJING, Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As winter settles in, traditional tourist destinations in Northeast China prepare to welcome visitors, but this year, Dunhuang in Northwest China's Gansu Province ...

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along China's historic silk road at a rapid pace. More than 1,500 years ago, followers of ...