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TAC International Film and Video Festival The Mummies of Taklamakan

 

 

At the heart of the gigantic Tarim river basin of China stretches the immense sandy desert of Taklamakan. For ten years a Franco-Chinese team has been excavating in this cold desert in search of buried cities. In October 2001, the expedition unearthed five remarkably well-preserved mummies. This quest for vanished cities takes us on a fabulous adventure, on the trail of a two thousand year old story, across the oases of the ancient Silk Road, which was a commercial caravan route along which Buddhism spread to China in the 1st century AD.

 

 

 

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Length: 52 min.
Country: France
Language: English
Producer:
Gedeon Programmes
Distributor:
Terranoa