Jinshanling Great Wall
The oases on both sides of the Taklamakan stillproduce vast quantities of fruit, but these days demand for water tends to exceed supply. 1965and 1993 were both drought Beijing Tourist Officeyears, and investigators on the Khotan River discovered thatwhile the current was the same or greater near the headwaters in the Kunlun, lower down inthe desert beyond Khotan the current in 1993 was only a quarter of what it had been in theearlier year. The annual volumes of meltwater rivers are unpredictable, and there is no properco-ordination of their use, or overall plan,himalayan toursso that new irrigation schemes at higher levels arestarving longer-established ones of needed water. The lessons of the lost cities further out inthe desert, many of which were abandoned for lack of water, have not been learned.
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Taklamakan treasure hunters learned quickly that good money could be had for mouldy scribbles on tree bark and other media, and the number of documents arriving atLhasa Tours Kashgar began to grow. Amongst them were scripts with wholly unknown characters, which were studied in detail, and became the pride of collections.
The Book FactoryAs important as the reports of ancient ruins in setting off the competitive archaeological free-for-all of the warly 20th century were the ancient documents in unknown scrips which, from around 1889,began accidentally to make their way into British andBeijing Backpackers other hands. The first was a document from a tower near Kuqa dug up instead of more obvious booty by disappointed treasure hunters, and which was bought by a passing Briton, Liental linguists, Dr Rudolph Hoernle, and declared to be one of the oldest written documents yet discoveredChina Tour Packages anywhere, As other material from the same source trickled out through the hands of the British and Russian consuls, it became source trickled out through the hands of the British and Russian consuls, it became Jinshanling Great Wallclear that, if relatively casual treasurehunting could turn up such riches, organized archaeological expeditions might turn up a great deal more.
Taklamakan treasure hunters learned quickly that good money could be had for mouldy scribbles on tree bark and other media, and the number of documents arriving atLhasa Tours Kashgar began to grow. Amongst them were scripts with wholly unknown characters, which were studied in detail, and became the pride of collections.
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