In Search of the Kingdom of Lou-lan*
- 1990 ----- color ----- 49 min ----- vhs
- (Silk Road, The series, Part 5) In this part you will learn of the lost kingdom of Lou-lan, which vanished into the sands of the desert when the nearby lake Lop Nor moved away! You will join the first journey in half a century to seek Lou-lan from Yan-guan on the eastern tip of the Taklamakan Desert, 1,200 miles west of Xi-an, in a secure military zone normally forbidden to visitors. You will find relics of the Silk Road trade over a millenium ago, and you will be the first to unearth a mummy from a grave hidden for more than 2,000 years! (Donated by the Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Center) (Restricted to use within the state of Washington only)
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, China, Far Eastern Studies, Geography, History: Asian)
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