Looking back over 3,000 years in the northwest corner of current-day China, we can see movement of peoples, ideas, and cultures. Some startling current events show us, however, that we might be destroying the richness of the past.
The Xiongnu Culture – Third Century BCE
http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=The_Xiong_Nu_Empire
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/xiongnu1.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiongnu
Kashgar, Cultural Capital
https://www.britannica.com/place/Kashgar
The Tarim mummies
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-mummies-of-the-tarim-basin/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies
A vital stop on China’s ancient Silk Road, the Uighur city of Kashgar may lose its old quarter to plans for “progress”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/demolishing-kashgars-history-7324895/
For centuries, Uighurs have lived in a vast region of deserts, mountains and lakes in the far northwest of China, known today as Xinjiang.
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-oppression-uyghurs-history/
China plans change in Uighur capital
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Bronze plaque of a man of the Ordos Plateau, long held by the Xiongnu (Source: PHGCOM, Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0)
