Recordedyearculture
Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
UNESCO inscribes the Mogao Grottoes, recognising both the cave art and the manuscript find as evidence of religious, artistic and commercial exchange along the corridor.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Mogao Caves · site · China
Evidence
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Mogao Caves
492 decorated cave temples with roughly 45,000 square metres of murals and over 2,000 painted sculptures, cut between the fourth and fourteenth centuries, together with the manuscript hoard of Cave 17.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · 1987 · Verified
World Heritage List, inscribed 1987 (list entry 440)
Recorded on Mogao Caves
- Mogao Cave 17 is sealed
- Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17
- The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
- Mogao Caves inscribed on the World Heritage List
Related
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- The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed · 1907-1908
- Wang Yuanlu opens Mogao Cave 17 · 1900
- Mogao Cave 17 is sealed · ~1000 CE