Nestled at a strategic crossroads of the ancient Silk Road, Dunhuang in Gansu province is far more than a desert oasis; it is ...

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 / ...

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 ...

Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change, researchers have found. Dating back to the 4th century, ...

Starting from Sunday, Dunhuang officially kicked off its study-tour season and winter-spring tourism discounts. Visitors can now enjoy free admissions to three of the city's key scenic spots, Mingsha ...

"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 ...

Dunhuang is a destination where we can all come together, across family, culture and time — overcoming every border and ...

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 ...

This Wednesday, May 4, 2016, photo shows a full-scale, hand-painted replica of Cave 275 of China's Cave Temples of Dunhuang on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit "Cave ...

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 ...