In the heart of Taklamakan, an immense cemetery exists in a legendary location. A great mound covered with pillars, this burial ground, contains more than three hundred graves, none of which have ever been scientifically examined. Despite the extreme climactic conditions, a Sino-Japanese team succeeds in cutting through the mystery of 'the devil's city" and discovers that the dead had come from far away to die in what was a veritable Garden of Eden. Sometimes we have to go a long way to solve the mystery of certain civilisations.
This episode of our investigation uses a 3D reconstitution of a fresco that disappeared some hundred years ago to tell both the story of a century of exploration in Central Asia and to recount a thousand years of work of painters willing to devote their lives to express the fervor of their devotion.
Could the persistent draught which disfigured a region just until then verdant, be explained and combated, in retracing the existence of an immense fortress abandoned since the Middle Ages? That is the belief of a scientific team set up at edge of the Gobi desert. But before the scientists can create a model of climatic changes, they will have to elucidate the mystery of Kara Khoto, the citadel in the sands