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0537 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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CHAPTER LXXXII

GLIMPSES OF TURFAN RUINS

Six rapid marches across a wearisome succession of low
and absolutely barren spurs with almost equally dreary
depressions intervening brought me by 10th November to
the fertile oasis of Pichan. During the short halt there
necessitated by topographical work, I was able to settle
a provisional programme for my visit to the ruined sites
of Turfan and for our surveys around them.

Exceptional conditions made it specially important to
turn my available time to best use. Since 1897 an archaeo-
logical reconnaissance effected by Dr. Klementz on be-
half of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and itself first
suggested by Captain Roborowsky's observations, had
drawn attention to the abundance of ancient ruins in the
small but fertile Turfan tract. This, the Chü-shih of early
Chinese records, is known to have been one of the chief
seats of Uigur power after the downfall of T'ang supremacy.
The facts reported by Dr. Klementz, and indirectly also
the results attending my explorations in the far-off Khotan
region during 1900-1, led to the despatch of a German
expedition under Professor A. Grünwedel, Director of the
Royal Ethnographic Museum of Berlin, and a high
authority on Buddhist art, which in 1902 visited Turfan
from the side of the Siberian railway for the purpose of
serious excavations.

Its discoveries of art and literary remains of all sorts
proved so important that provision was promptly made
by the Prussian Ministry of Education, under the special
patronage of the German Emperor, for the systematic
continuation of the work by means of scientific expeditions,
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