Photograph in Black City - a Fortress!
June 28th 2007 05:05
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Khara Khoto, China, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz
Miles of shifting sands surround the 30-foot-high (10-meter-high) ramparts of the fortress of Khara Khoto, or Black City, in northern China’s Alashan Plateau.
In the 14th century, China’s Ming armies laid siege to the Mongol city and diverted the Black River, which flowed just outside the fortress.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “China’s Unknown Gobi: Alashan,” January 2002, National Geographic magazine)
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Comment by tlcorbin-raginravensview
I see your great drawing wound up with some eastern influence.
The story was interesting.
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It's fascinating to hear of all these old tales, not much difference nowadays is there, still fighting over the same old things.
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