Silk Road archive online

In a joint project of the British Library and the National Library of China, the contents of the Dunhuang cave will be reunited online. Hundreds of paintings and thousands of manuscripts were cached in the cave around AD 1000, only to be dispersed shortly after their discovery 100 years ago. The more than 50,000 artifacts may be seen here and here.

Posted by David on November 12, 2002 11:07 AM