In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert ... of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe.
The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...
China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.