Skip to content
RichseenAtlas← AtlasSign in

Northern Tarim route

node · earth · Tarim Basin, Xinjiang

The corridor running west from Dunhuang along the northern rim of the Taklamakan, at the southern foot of the Tian Shan, through the oases of Turfan, Karashahr, Kucha and Aksu to Kashgar. It skirts the desert; it does not cross it. Each oasis exists because a stream descends from the Tian Shan, and the spacing of those streams sets the stages of the journey. This was the route of the Tang Anxi Protectorate garrisons and the corridor along which Buddhist cave complexes at Kizil and Bezeklik were cut.

Read in · 1

Evidence · 2
Timeline

No dated observations are stored for this object. Atlas shows what was observed and when — it does not infer a history.

Connections · 3
Assembled narrative · 1

Assembled from 38 blocks · 2 evidence · 46 related

  1. Story
  2. The corridor running west from Dunhuang along the northern rim of the Taklamakan, at the southern foot of the Tian Shan, through the oases of Turfan, Karashahr, Kucha and Aksu to Kashgar. It skirts the desert; it does not cross it. Each oasis exists because a stream descends from the Tian Shan, and the spacing of those streams sets the stages of the journey. This was the route of the Tang Anxi Protectorate garrisons and the corridor along which Buddhist cave complexes at Kizil and Bezeklik were cut.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Dunhuang
  5. Kashgar
  6. Taklamakan Desert
  7. Northern Tarim route
  8. Connections
  9. Taklamakan Desert
  10. Dunhuang
  11. Kashgar
  12. Maritime Silk Road
  13. Tang Empire
  14. Turfan oasis
  15. Tang conquest of Gaochang and the Anxi Protectorate
  16. Chang'an-Tianshan corridor inscribed by UNESCO
  17. Northern Tarim route
  18. Southern Tarim route
  19. Han Empire
  20. Han establishes the Protectorate of the Western Regions
  21. Northern Tarim route
  22. Southern Tarim route
  23. Mogao Caves
  24. Mogao Caves
  25. First cave cut at Mogao (traditional date)
  26. The Sogdian Ancient Letters are abandoned west of Dunhuang
  27. Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
  28. Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
  29. Silk Road religious corridor
  30. Buddhism attested in Han China
  31. Traditional founding of the first cave at Mogao
  32. Pamir Mountains
  33. Northern Tarim route
  34. Southern Tarim route
  35. Islam
  36. Evidence
  37. A transnational serial property of 33 component sites across China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, covering roughly 5,000 km of corridor: capitals, palace complexes, trading settlements, Buddhist cave temples, beacon towers, passes and sections of the Great Wall. The property is defined as a network of routes, not a road.
  38. Eyewitness description of the Tarim oasis kingdoms, the Pamir crossing, Central Asia and seventh-century India, compiled the year after Xuanzang's return. It records the state of Buddhist communities city by city and has been used by archaeologists to identify and locate sites.
Close the narrative
Observed changes · 0

No public Signals are attached to this object. Signals show what changed and when it was observed — never a direction or a rank.

Actions

Read the assembled narrativeContinue in StudioOpen TwinTwin does not start a decision from this kind of object.ShareSaveSaved objects are part of the authenticated projection, which is declared and not yet built.

/atlas?object=ROUTE_TAKLAMAKAN_NORTHERN&experience=ROUTE_TAKLAMAKAN_NORTHERN