In 1997 CERS shifted its focus to wildlife programs, leaving the Silk Road project high and dry. At that time I met an American archeologist named Adam Kessler whose lifelong passion has been to investigate China's ancient world. He was looking for people to help him form the Eurasian Origins Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching early civilizations on the Eurasian continent. Together we are seeking funding for a joint American-Chinese expedition into the "deep desert" of the Taklamakan to ground truth SIR-C images and possibly discover previously unknown archeological sites. Ruins discovered elsewhere in the Tarim Basin have produced artifacts such as tombs, temples, frescoes, statues, and scrolls--crucial clues that allow us to track migration of peoples and ideas across Eurasia.
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