Nov 29, 2024
I went to The British Museum's Silk Roads exhibition last month and learned about the Library Cave 👀🧐
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I went to The British Museum's Silk Roads exhibition last month and learned about the Library Cave 👀🧐
In 1900, a sealed cave (Mogao Caves) was discovered in China containing 1,100 scrolls and 15,000 Buddhist texts. It was sealed early in the 11th century and contained the earliest dated printed book, a copy of the Diamond Sutra printed in 868. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Mogao Caves - Wikipedia
French sinologist Paul Pelliot in the Library Cave at Dunhuang in 1908 reading the manuscripts