Original sentence: The caves are said to be the earliest major Buddhist cave complex in East Turkestan, with development occurring between the 3rd and 8th centuries
Edited sentence: Also in order to convert the local tocharian population and erase any sing of budhism in the region and extinct any pictorial representation that showed any other race or ethnicity in the regions.The caves are said to be the earliest major Buddhist cave complex in ancient Tocharian Kindoms and what now is called East Turkestan, with development occurring between the 3rd and 8th centuries.The caves were build from 3rd century AD to 500 AD long before the arrival of Uigur Turks in the region or the arrival of any other turkic tribe.The caves were the sole creation of the Tocharian people.The faces in the walls were schratched by the Uigurs Turks, who since they were muslims and in order to be faithfull to their religion who forbids any visual reproduction of the divine element.The murals depicted only caucausian individuals, while the Turks are of mongolian descent