As an ancillary event to the Global Civilizations Dialogue Ministerial Meeting that was concluded on Friday in Beijing, the ...

Hua Liang from the Art Institute of Dunhuang Academy touches up a painting. Photo: CFP Guan Jinwen, who went to the institute in 1983, works on her copy in a cave of the Mogao Grottoes. Photo: CFP ...

Dunhuang City in northwest Gansu Province was an important strategic point on the Silk Road. Its rich heritage of cultural relics, particularly the Dunhuang Grottoes, have made it one of the most ...

The Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, also known as the One-Thousand-Buddha Grottoes, are located on the eastern, rocky side of Singing Sand Mountain, near Dunhang City, Gansu Province.

Today East and West are converging again on Dunhuang, this time to help save the grottoes from what may be the biggest threat in their 1,600-year history.

DUNHUANG, China — Hewn by hand out of a cliff face in the Gobi Desert starting about 1,700 years ago, ... nearly 500 caves at Mogao Grottoes decorated by merit-seeking monks, ...

The 300,000-character reports on No. 256, 257 and 259 caves of the grottoes constitute the second volume of the "Complete Works on Dunhuang Grottoes." This epic compilation project was launched in ...

LANZHOU, July 23 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition showcasing dresses in the mural paintings of the millennium-old Dunhuang grottoes opened Friday in Dunhuang City, northwest China's Gansu Province.

The Mogao Grottoes, twenty – five kilometers southeast of the town of Dunhuang County, contain the largest and richest treasure trove of stone carvings and mural paintings in China. Carved out ...