* Astronomy

The Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in a sealed cave in the Mogao Caves by the Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu on June 25, 1900.

The Dunhuang map or Dunhuang Star map is one of the first known graphical representations of stars from ancient Chinese astronomy, dated to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Before this map, much of the star information mentioned in historical Chinese texts had been questioned. The map provides a graphical verification of the star observations, and are part of a series of pictures on one of the Dunhuang manuscripts.
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