Digital platform reunites Dunhuang artifacts as cave discovery marks 125 years

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  thousands of scattered cultural relics from the millennium-old Mogao Grotto's library cave for the first time.

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  The digital library cave platform,

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  developed by the Dunhuang Academy, integrates some 74,000 artifact records,

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  and shares over 9,900 manuscripts, more than 60,700 images, and 8.4 million characters.

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  Discovered accidentally in 1900, the library cave yielded over 73,000 artifacts,

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  Buddhist sculptures, documents, and artworks.

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  While only 26,000 items remain in China,

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  various institutions have contributed digital copies of their collections to the platform.

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  Su Bo Min, Dean of the Dunhuang Academy,

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  said this is a bridge connecting ancient and modern civilization,

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  a digital library spanning a millennium.

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  The platform employs AI-powered text recognition, image stitching,

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  and knowledge mapping to enable global access to research materials,

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  and high-resolution images of the artifacts.

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  Supported by seven international partners,

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  including the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

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