Western Region Travel Series 08: Discovering the Sutra Cave (knowing the New)
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From 1900 to 1901, 1906 to 1908, and 1913 to 1916, Aurel Stein, a British Hungarian, successively went to my country's Xinjiang and Hexi regions to conduct archaeological expeditions and published archaeological reports on these three expeditions: "Ancient Hotan - A Detailed Report on Archaeological Excavations in Xinjiang, China", "Archaeological Map of the Western Regions", and "Archaeological Map of the Heart of Asia". These three works are Stein's masterpieces. They comprehensively describe the ruins and relics of the Han and Tang Dynasties in Xinjiang, my country, as well as the treasures of the Dunhuang Grottoes and the Buddhist art of the Thousand Buddha Caves. They reveal the mystery of the ancient civilization in the region and the exchange and integration of Chinese and Western civilizations. The Travels in the Western Regions series integrates the archaeological data of Stein's three expeditions to western China and integrates and revise the above-mentioned archaeological reports so that the public can more easily understand the process and results. There are 15 volumes in the series. This volume is from "Illustrated Archeology of the Western Regions": After the Mogao Grottoes scripture cave was discovered due to an earthquake, its value has not been known to the outside world. In May 1907, Stein used various means to defraud Taoist Wang's trust and defrauded more than 10,000 volumes of scriptures, more than 500 paintings, and more than 230 bundles of manuscripts from the Sutra Cave.
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