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"Just over a thousand years ago, someone sealed up a chamber in a cave outside
the oasis town of Dunhuang, on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China.
The chamber was filled with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled
manuscripts. They sat there, hidden, for the next nine hundred years. When the
room, which came to be known as the Dunhuang Library, was finally opened in
1900, it was hailed as one of the great archaeological discoveries of the
twentieth century, on par with Tutankhamun’s tomb and the Dead Sea Scrolls."
A fascinating area of history.
Via Jon Swabey.
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