The Library Cave of Dunhuang

• The site is documented at Mogao Caves, Gansu, China; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
• Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
• What is there: A walled-up trove of manuscripts.

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

• The site is documented at Mogao Caves, Gansu, China; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
• Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
• What is there: A walled-up trove of manuscripts.
• Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
• Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
• Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

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• The Library Cave of Dunhuang · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia

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