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"The largest manuscript "haul" of all was made initially by Aurel Stein of Britain and later Pelliot of France at Tun-huang at the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas." Led by rumors, they persuaded a Buddhist monk restoring the cave-temples to reveal a secret chanber he had discovered that was " ... a solid mass of manuscript bundles rising to a height of nearly ten feet, and filling, as a subsequent measurement showed, close to 500 cubic feet." Among them was the oldest block-print book in the world, a "Diamond Sutra" from the ninth century. There were " ... countless manuscripts in Chinese, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Tibetan, Tunic-Turki and Uighure, as well as in unknown languages ... "

"Most of the Tun-huang manuscripts ended in the British museum or at the Musee Guimet in Paris. Another cache of texts at Tun-Huang was discovered by Chinese archeologists in the 1940's and as late as 1977 a Swedish bookseller was offering Tun-Huang manuscripts in his catalog. Of the British-held manuscripts, "Half a century was to pass before these (and then only the complete ones) had been catalogued. In his mongraph, "Six Centuries at Tunhuang," Dr. Lionel Giles, who carried out this titanic task, calculates that in all he had to wade through between ten and twenty miles of closely written rolls of text." - Manuscripts from the Gobi by Mark Jaqua
 

"Today the thousands of manuscripts brought back from Chinese Central Asia, written in a multitude of tongues and scripts, are divided among the institutions of at least eight different countries. Very many have still to be translated. The deciphering of one script, or the translation of one collection, can take a man's entire working life ... Anyone who wishes to understand the contribution these manuscripts have made to the study of Central Asia and Buddhist history can turn to the host of translations, catalogues, monographs and other special studies produced by scholars such as Bailey, Giles, Waley, Maspero, Levi, Konow, Muller, Henning, Hoernle, Pelliot and Chavannes, to name just a few. -  Peter Hopkirk's book "Foreign Devils on the Silk Road"