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View
of the caves from the top of the cliff.
After this the site was little used
until a secret sealed-up cave was discovered in 1900. Its entrance from the side
wall of another cave had been plastered over and disguised but, when opened, a
small cave crammed with ancient manuscripts, printed documents and paintings was
open to view for the first time since the early 11th century. Wang Yuanlu, the
Daoist priest who discovered the cave, gave some of the manuscripts and paintings
to local Chinese officials over the next few years, including the magistrate of
Dunhuang, Wang Li'an.
The cave's discovery coincided with a period of great international archaeological research in the area and Sir Aurel Stein was the first foreigner to gain access in 1907. Thereafter archaeologists from France, China, Russia and Japan were drawn to Dunhuang, and the great majority of manuscripts and documents from this one cave are now in Beijing, Paris, London and St. Petersburg, with sizeable collections in Japan. Documents and paintings from other Silk Road towns are to be found more widely in museums and libraries throughout Europe, Asia and America.
Apart from 14,000 paper scrolls and fragments from this cave at Dunhuang, the British Library Stein collection includes several thousand woodslips and woodslip fragments with Chinese writing, thousands of Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets in Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts, along with documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic.
