Known for his deep engagement with Chinese literature, German sinologist Martin Woesler recently made his first visit to the ...

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 ...

Ancient murals in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes are in danger of disintegrating. Preservationists are desperately trying to digitize the important relics before they are gone forever. The precious ...

The Fourth Dialogue on Exchanges and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations was held in Dunhuang in Northwest China's Gansu ...

The glorious history of China's ancient Silk Road shaping around 114 B.C. has been epitomized in a documentary centered on the remote past of Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, a landmark preserved with ...

the Mogao site could handle just 3,000 tourists per day — a number that seemed unrealistically low given the growing interest in the grottoes. At the same time, he said, the Dunhuang Academy ...

Archaeological reports on three caves of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in China's Dunhuang, were published, the ...

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 ...

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 ...