9 The Tang Dynasty and the start of the Uyghurs (Lost Oasis on the Silk Road)

The final episode in the series traces the decline of the kingdom of Kucha, owing to continuing wars between the Han and the Hun, and the Han and the Turks.

Eventually because of the wars peoples from central Mongolia were forced to leave behind their homelands, and they came to the Kucha area, and mixing with the local population, became the ancestors of the modern Uighur population.

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