100 CE – 1300 CE · 1 sites
Country Record
Longest Continuously Occupied Site in China
100 CE – 1300 CE
Vast mud-brick ruins of the oasis capital east of Turpan — known as Gaochang in Chinese sources and Qocho/Khocho under the Uyghur kingdom — a Buddhist then Manichaean–Buddhist Silk Road metropolis with city walls still delineating a huge urban footprint in the desert.
