Its rich heritage of cultural relics, particularly the Dunhuang Grottoes, have made it one of the most attractive tourist sites in the world. The Dunhuang Grottoes include the Mogao, Yulin ...

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. Mogao's murals have always been fragile ...

The company, also known as ICBC-AXA Life, donated funds to the China Dunhuang Grottoes Conservation Research Foundation to ...

Remarkably preserved in the Silk Road desert, Dunhuang’s grottoes have astounded visitors for nearly 17 centuries. Merchants, officials, and aristocrats enshrined Buddhist culture through commissioned ...

Dunhuang was once the gateway to the ancient Silk Road, and is famous for its network of underground Buddhist temples. These grottoes are filled with paintings and sculptures spanning the fifth to ...

Before I came here, I actually had a lot of ideas about Dunhuang, but when I stood inside the grottoes and saw in person the Buddha statues that were shaped by craftsmen thousands of years ago ...

In 1900, the Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu, a resident of Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, stumbled upon a concealed cave while clearing away accumulated sand. This hidden repository — now known as the Library ...

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.

Fan, a Han Chinese, first trekked all the way to Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in the middle of the desert in July 1963 shortly after graduating from college, cherishing a dream to protect the national ...

Tsiang's research has also contributed to preservation work at the Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu province in China's northwest. The laser scanning technology can be used to analyse the composition of ...