June 22, 1900 (May 26) Boxer, China Gansu Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang Library Cave was discovered.


Mogao location
June 1900, the world famous Mogao Grottoes in Gansu Dunhuang Library Cave was discovered. Wang Yuan Lu, (TodayinHistory.cn) the Dunhuang Mogao under Temple priests in the clean-up of sand, accidentally discovered the Library Cave and dug up the 4th century to the 11th century AD Buddhist scriptures, social instruments, embroidery, silk paintings, instruments used such as more than 50,000 pieces of cultural relics. This finding for the study of ancient China and Central Asian history, geography, religious, economic, political, ethnic, language, literature, art, science and technology to provide a number of extremely large, extremely rich and valuable information. After the theft of Britain, France, Japan, the United States, Russia and other countries explorers plundered the Library Cave vast majority of artifacts Unfortunately diaspora around the world, leaving only a small portion is retained in the country, resulting in unprecedented calamity in the history of Chinese culture.