Mogao Caves: Then and Now

Nearly five hundred Buddhist cave temples cut into a cliff outside Dunhuang between the fourth and fourteenth centuries; the sealed Library Cave was found in 1900.

Key facts

Country today	China
Status	Standing
Date	AD 366
Nearest city on the map	Dunhuang (about 17 km)
Location	40.042° N, 94.809° E

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

Period	State
500 BC–401 BC	Proto-Altaic pastoralists
400 BC–324 BC	Xiongnu
323 BC–201 BC	Unclaimed / no data
200 BC–101 BC	Yuezhi
100 BC–2 BC	Unclaimed / no data
1 BC–299	Han
300–399	Jin
400–499	Northern Liang
500–699	Unclaimed / no data
700–799	Karluks
800–999	Tibetan Empire
1000–1299	Xixia
1300–1399	Great Khanate
1400–1491	Northern Yuan
1492–1599	Chagatai Khanate
1600–1782	central Asian khanates
1783–1814	Qing Empire
1815–1919	Manchu Empire
1920–1937	Chinese Warlords
1938–1944	Chinese warlords
1945–today	China

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