Mogao Caves

Cave of forgotten dreams is a documentary that gives an insightful view of a great and remarkable oldest cave art has been found in the world. That film has been made based on a lot of studies by a group of scientists and researchers which have gone inside the cave. A number of paintings which found were astonishing that brought the scientists back in time to a period that dating about 30,000-32,000 years ago.(the film of the Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 1994) Of course with the new scientific…

I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price…

Mountains of southeast New Mexico. The cave was dissolved along cracks and faults in the limestone rock by sulfuric acid. The limestone was laid down about 250,000,000 years ago, as part of a reef complex along the edge of an inland sea. Seventeen to 20,000,000 years ago, the ancient reef rocks that had been buried under thousands of feet of younger rocks began to lift upwards. This historic park is very special because it contains more than 119 limestone caves. The cavern is special because of…

located in Datong, China, formed from caves. These magnificent examples of ancient rock cut architecture portray the power of trade on the silk road perfectly because they are a shrine to Buddhism located thousands of miles away from the religion’s origin. The 492 caverns that form the Mogao Caves represent and house the greatest achievements in Buddhist art and, like the Yungang Grottoes, are located in China. In addition to Buddhist treasures, the caves also contain many murals representing…

In Susan Whitfield’s Life Along the Silk Road, she takes primary sources from the Dunhuang Manuscripts to create conglomerate characters, proving the inaccuracy of the popular phrase “Silk Road, ” a label for popular trading networks that stretched all the way from Rome, Africa, India, and China.In her introduction, Whitfield makes it clear to her readers of the origin of the term “Silk Road.” The first to coin this phrase was a German geographer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. Many students…

The impact of the Silk Road upon European and Asian civilizations was immense. Resulting in cultural diffusion on a massive scale the Silk Road provided a conduit for the migration of foreign ideals, philosophies, and religions. Along with this wealth of information came the silk and spice trades, the founding products that led to the original creation and prosperity of the Silk Road. Together these two basic principles of wealth and a lust for knowledge drove the forces that changed European…