Aging Loulan (Archaeology of the Ancient Kingdoms of Loulan and Niya)

Author: Wang Binghua
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: This book primarily discusses Loulan, an ancient ruin that has long been submerged deep in the desert. The landscape is desolate with sparse grasses and no signs of human life. However, in recent 20 years, it has become a frequent highlight in newspapers and magazines and a place people seek and yearn for. Not only do Chinese people hope to have the chance to enter Loulan and see its true face, but many foreign friends are also willing to cross vast distances, fly over the ocean, and overcome various hardships to come to Xinjiang, traverse the desert, step on the Gobi, and design ways to reach Loulan, seeing it as the greatest fulfillment in life. This book is divided into six parts: Loulan Ancient City Emerging from the Desert Sea, Searching for Loulan in the of Old Paper, Loulan History Converged in Ancient Relics and Antiquities, Loulan: A Desert of Sand and Stones, and the Loulan Chronology.