gnostek1 / 4Albert von Le Coq
- 01Von Le Coq used ordinary bread knives to saw through 1,500-year-old Buddhist frescoes at Kizil caves.
- 02He shipped the fresco slabs to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, crated like furniture.
- 03RAF bombing raids in 1943 destroyed much of what he had taken — the originals were gone and the copies incinerated.