Report on Sir T. D. Forsyth's travel to Yarkund, where he made researches on Turkistan and Yakub Beg in 1873. Forsyth had a great interest in history and archaeology in this region, evoked by a report by a British surveyor, William Johnson, who had surveyed Taklamakan Desert in 1860's and had reported the existence of ancient cities near Khotan. This report contains numerous buried ancient ruins and relics (e.g., image of Buddha, ca. 10th century) along with plenty of photographs of those days. [Read more..]
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