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22 World Heritage sites in China along the Silk Road

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11. Bingling Temple Grottoes, Gansu province

22 World Heritage sites in China along the Silk Road

The Bingling Temple Grottoes in Northwest China's Gansu provinceare filled with Buddhist statues, stupas and murals and were a work in progress between the 4th and 10th centuries. The first grotto was begun around 420 AD at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty.[Photo/CFP]

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