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0440 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 440 (Color Image)

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thereafter help to ascertain the chronological order, and possibly
the internal connection of the various documents. Accordingly,
every inscribed piece had to be carefully tabulated before it was
removed and cleaned, no easy task with fingers half benumbed by
cold and in the dust which a fresh north-east breeze raised from
the dug-up refuse heap. For three long working days I had to
inhale its odours, still pungent after so many centuries, and to
swallow in liberal doses antique microbes luckily now dead. But