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According to the account of Xuanzang, Khotan was the first place outside China to learn theart of silk-making, the seeds of mulberry trees and the silkwormsBeijing Bus Tours themselves being concealedin the head-dress of a Chinese princess coming to marry a Khotani king. A later 10th-centuryking is depicted on the walls of cave no.97 at Dunhuang.Mount Everest Xuanzang also mentions carpetmanufacture, so it's another point against supposedly sharp-eyed merchant Polo that hementions neither silk nor carpets, and dismisses Khotan in a single paragraph.
Rumours that earlier versions of Khotan still existed reached the Beijing China TourWest in 1855 from one of thepundits, Indians employed by the British government in India as secret agents to map theuncharted regions of Central Asia and Tibet using the equivalent of the secret radio pen:
surveying equipment hidden in walking sticks and prayer wheels. As pawns in the GreatGame, they were also to report on Russian activity in the regions they China Tours
surveyed, but oneMohamed-i-Hameed also mentioned having heard rumours of ruins near Khotan during a six-month stay in Yarkand. His report was followed up in 1866-7 without official permission byan Englishman called William Johnson, who thus became the first of a series The Forbidden City
of Westerners tovisit the Khotani ruins. At the time of Johnson's visit the population was a sizeable 40,000.
Heentered the city at the invitation of the Khan, who then kept him hostage for a short time inthe hope that that would bring British troops to help him against theGreat Wall of China
Russians. After theXinjiang-wide revolt of 1863 the area came under the rule of Habib-ullah, who was subsequently murdered by Yakub Beg in January 1867.
Stein made several visits to Khotani sites from 1901, naming Yotkan as the site of the ancientcapital of the region, occupied from the 1st century AD until the arrival of Islam in the 8th
Rumours that earlier versions of Khotan still existed reached the Beijing China TourWest in 1855 from one of thepundits, Indians employed by the British government in India as secret agents to map theuncharted regions of Central Asia and Tibet using the equivalent of the secret radio pen:
surveying equipment hidden in walking sticks and prayer wheels. As pawns in the GreatGame, they were also to report on Russian activity in the regions they China Tours
surveyed, but oneMohamed-i-Hameed also mentioned having heard rumours of ruins near Khotan during a six-month stay in Yarkand. His report was followed up in 1866-7 without official permission byan Englishman called William Johnson, who thus became the first of a series The Forbidden City
of Westerners tovisit the Khotani ruins. At the time of Johnson's visit the population was a sizeable 40,000.
Heentered the city at the invitation of the Khan, who then kept him hostage for a short time inthe hope that that would bring British troops to help him against theGreat Wall of China
Russians. After theXinjiang-wide revolt of 1863 the area came under the rule of Habib-ullah, who was subsequently murdered by Yakub Beg in January 1867.
Stein made several visits to Khotani sites from 1901, naming Yotkan as the site of the ancientcapital of the region, occupied from the 1st century AD until the arrival of Islam in the 8th
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