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28.06.2007

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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 Chinas Alashan Plateau.

In the 14th century, Chinas 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, Chinas Unknown Gobi: Alashan, January 2002, National Geographic magazine)

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