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<< Our Photo Pages >> Rawak - Ancient Village or Settlement in China

Submitted by durhamnature on Thursday, 07 February 2013  Page Views: 6766

Multi-periodSite Name: Rawak
Country: China
NOTE: This site is 21.022 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Latitude: 37.204722N  Longitude: 80.948888E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old photo in the Stupa Court, via archive.org Site in China (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in China

Ancient, abandoned Silk Road settlement and Buddhist centre in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, western China.
Explored by Aurel Stein and other Europeans in the early 20th century.
The lat-long reference is from a Wikipedia page, "List of Archaeological Sites of the Taklamakan and Lop Desert"
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Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old grainy photo of excavated statues, from "Sand Buried Ruins..."via archive.org Site in China (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old cross section drawing from "Khotan" via archive.org Site in China (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the ruined Vihara, from Aurel Stein's "Khotan..." via archive.org Site in China (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old grainy photo of excavated statues, from "Sand Buried Ruins..."via archive.org Site in China (Vote or comment on this photo)

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old grainy photo of excavated statues, from "Sand Buried Ruins..."via archive.org Site in China

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old grainy photo of excavations, from "Sand Buried Ruins..."via archive.org Site in China

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old photo of a stucco Buddha, via archive.org Site in China

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature

Rawak
Rawak submitted by durhamnature : Old photo in the Stupa Court, via archive.org Site in China

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