dunhuang star map
This is one of the first known graphical representation of stars from ancient Chinese astronomy, dated to the Tang Dynasty. The map provides a graphical verification of the star observations, and are part of a series of pictures on one of the Dunhuang manuscripts. The map was discovered among the many manuscripts in the Mogao Caves by Chinese Taoist Wang Yuan-lu in the 1900s One of the first public mentionings of this script in Western studies was from Joseph Needham's 1959 version of the book Science and Civilisation in China. Since that time only a few publications have been devoted to the map, all being Chinese publications.
