MONGOLS CHINA AND THE SILK ROAD

Archaeology and History of the Silk Road

Friday, 6 May 2011

Series about the Dunhuand Magao Caves

Excellent series of videos about the Dunhuang Mogao Caves, each ca 10 minutes, collected by Daibusshi on YouTube.com

Dunhuang: Mogao Cave 465 (敦煌: 莫高窟 465)

Dunhuang: Mogao Cave 428 (敦煌: 莫高窟 428)

Dunhuang: Mogao Cave 427 (敦煌: 莫高窟 427)

Hans van Roon at 14:22

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Hans van Roon: Rotterdam, Netherlands; My fascination for these subjects started in the '80 's by reading the book of Peter Hopkirk about the travels and explorations of Aurel Stein in Central Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. Over the Silk Road through Central Asia, the Taklamakan Desert, Bokhara and Samarkand I arrived in the 13th century and followed the building of a world empire by Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons. His most famous grand son was Khubilai Khan and with him I ended in the Yuan Dynasty in the time when Marco Polo visited China and since than I never stopped reading again

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Friday, 6 May 2011

Series about the Dunhuand Magao Caves

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