Editing Turpan (section)

====Turfan expeditions====
{{main|German Turfan expeditions}}

German scientists conducted archaeological expeditions, known as the [[German Turfan expeditions]], at the beginning of the 20th century (between 1902 and 1914). They discovered paintings and other art treasures that were transported to the [[Museum of Asian Art]] in [[Berlin]].

Artifacts of Manichaean and Buddhist provenance were also found in Turfan.<ref name="Gulácsi2005">{{cite book|author=Zsuzsanna Gulácsi|title=Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art: A Codicological Study of Iranian And Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th–11th Century East Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ikfnWtpbnyQC&q=turfan+mixing&pg=PA19|year=2005|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-13994-X|pages=19–|author-link=Zsuzsanna Gulácsi}}</ref> During World War II, many of these artifacts were destroyed or looted.<ref>From the Introduction by [[Peter Hopkirk]] in the 1985 edition of Von Le Coq's ''Buried Treasures of Chinese [[Turkestan]]'', p. ix–x.</ref>