Inside a 1,500-year-old cave at Dunhuang, conservators use multispectral scans and generative models to read murals that chemistry is slowly erasing — and they keep the ...
Mogao has 735 caves and a daily cap of 6,000 visitors in peak season. Here is where that number comes from, how the ticket tiers actually ...
Inside the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, a new generation of restorers is preserving ancient murals under extreme desert conditions. Their work is slow, precise, and deeply ...
A glimpse into the lives of women scientists working in the Mogao Caves, where they painstakingly preserve ancient Buddhist murals for future generations. ...