Mogao Grottos in Gansu Province,

12. Grottos

These discovered documents are important materials for studying history, geography, religions, economy, politics, nations, literature, art, science and technology of China and Central Asia. The findings from Mogao Grottoes underwent incessant disasters. A great deal of relics and some frescos and color statues were looted and transported to their countries by England, France, Japan, Russia, the United States.