Several places in China feature singing dunes. Among the most significant is Dunhuang, a city that once connected China with Europe and the Middle East via the ancient Silk Road trade route.

The camel caravan tramps along the dunes, each animal carrying a passenger ... There are about 2,000 camels at the Mingsha Mountain outside Dunhuang, an ancient Silk Road oasis at the edge of ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The human skeletons were piled up like signposts in the sand. For Xuanzang, a Buddhist monk traveling the Silk Road in A ...

Young Post joined a group of teens as they became intrepid explorers last month, spending six days trekking sand dunes, navigating their way through caves and studying ancient art in Dunhuang ...

A man in September 2018 climbs dunes near Crescent Lake in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Dunhuang was a major stop on the ancient Silk Road, established in an oasis that contains Crescent Lake and ...

At the opening ceremony, Ancient Sound of Dunhuang Educational Base showcased A Thousand-Year Dream, the world's first cave-style immersive theatrical production. The performance brought the Mogao ...

The glorious paintings and statues of the Dunhuang caves have long attracted visitors from around the world. But tourism is doing more harm than good to these extremely fragile works of art.

One of the most eminent Chinese artists to study in France, Chang discovered a book containing photographs of hundreds of Dunhuang paintings and manuscripts in an old bookstore in Paris in 1935.