Yumenguan

Gansu · China

Yumenguan, China
Photo: 张骐, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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The Jade Gate Pass, a Han dynasty frontier fort in the Gobi west of Dunhuang, marked the edge of the empire on the Silk Road. Its lone rammed-earth walls stand amid stretches of ancient beacon towers and wall.

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