Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
project: Digitisation and Access Enhancement of the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts at the British Library
Grant Holder: Dr Sam Vanschaik; Dr Jacob Dalton
"Following extensive excavations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings, textiles and other artefacts dating from 100 BC - AD 1200 were found in the Library Cave at Dunhuang and at numerous other ancient Silk Road cities, temples and tombs in the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. These constitute a fragile but very rich source of information about religion, art, history, politics, trade, science, culture and social life on the Eastern Silk Road around the first millennium AD. [read more]