The site was visited by many of the archaeological expeditions sent by various imperial powers to Chinese Central Asia in the first two decades of the 20th century, among them the Russian Sergey Oldenburg between 1909–10, the German expeditions led by Albert Grünwedel (Nov 1902-March 1903) and Albert von Le Coq (1904-7, 1913-4) and the Japanese expeditions of Ōtani Kōzui in 1902.
Shinjiro Otani | Otani | Ōtani Kōzui |