Carving a protective niche for Silk Road's caves

The ancient Silk Road and digital technology would appear to be worlds and millennia apart but a new project is bringing the two together in the name of preservation.

The crown jewels of the former trading route are the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province, which contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art.

Statues and wall paintings, created over a period of more than 1,000 years, adorn the nearly 500 alcoves and caves at the World Heritage listed-site.

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