The Lost Kingdom of Loulan

In ancient times, there was a prosperous Silkroad city-state in the Tarim Basim. However, in a matter of decades, it seemed to have completely been erased off the map. What happened? Find out in this video!

Check out more about the Central Asian Greeks of Dayuan:    • Dayuan - The Greeks of Central Asia  

Sound provided by Jonatan Järpehag "Silk Road", "Red Sun" & "Family"

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Sources:
Smithsonian Magazine: New Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Millennia-Old Mummies Found in China: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
Records of the Grand Historian of China Han Dynasty II by Sima Qian: https://books.google.pt/books?id=z3Oj...
The Late Prehistory of Xinjiang in Relation to Its Neighbors: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25801077
Stability and tilting of regional water cycle over Tarim Basin: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
The world’s earliest Aral-Sea type disaster: the decline of the Loulan Kingdom in the Tarim Basin: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep4...
China in Central Asia - The Early Stage 125 BC - AD 23: https://books.google.pt/books/about/C...
History of Central Asia, vol.2: https://books.google.pt/books?id=DhiW...
New evidence of agricultural activity and environmental change associated with the ancient Loulan kingdom, China, around 1500 years ago: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Evidence for a late Holocene warm and humid climate period and environmental characteristics in the arid zones of northwest China during 2.2 ∼ 1.8 kyr B.P.: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...

Images provided by:
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum Urumqi Xinjiang China by Hiroki Ogawa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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