An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 26, 2025 shows the autumn view around the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye City, northwest China's Gansu Province. First built around 1,600 years ago along the ...

Mati Temple complex finalizes digitization project to preserve and research grottoes. A digitization project of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province, that aims at high ...

The digital protection project of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye City, northwest China's Gansu Province, has been completed, local authorities said. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency.

Tourists take photos in front of the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu Province, on June 23, 2025. Carved during the Northern Liang period of the Sixteen Kingdoms era (304-439), ...

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The Mati Temple Grottoes were first built 1,600 years ago on bare cliffs that are almost vertical and some dozens of meters above land.[Photo provided to China Daily] For 1,600 years, the Mati Temple ...

The Mati Grottoes cover about 100 square kilometers in Sunan, a Yugu ethnic autonomous county 600 kilometers from Gansu's provincial capital Lanzhou. The first caves were dug about 1,600 years ...