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Great Archaeological Discovery Made
in Shaanxi
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The excavation at the Zhougong Temple site, which was done by the Shaanxi
Archaeological Research Institute and Peking University, started in February. Since
then a large-scale investigation and excavation was made in the region around the
Zhougong Temple. Recently a 1,500-meter city wall of the Western Zhou Dynasty
(11 century B.C.- 771 B.C.) have been found around a newly found tomb group at the
Zhougong Temple site in Qishan County in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
As the archaeological excavation at Fenggao, capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty,
has not discovered any relics of a city wall, the discovery of the city wall at the
Zhougong Temple site is of great significance to the research on the history of the
Western Zhou Dynasty, said Lei Xingshan, associate professor with the School of
Archaeology and Museology at Peking University, who participated in the
archaeological excavation at the Zhougong Temple site.
The city wall runs around the newly found tomb group, which is considered of the
highest tomb standard of the Western Zhou Dynasty ever discovered in China. The
rest of the wall is distributed around the eastern, northern and western sides of the
tomb group with a length of 700 meters, 300 meters and 500 meters respectively.
And the wall is some 10 meters thick.
About seven kilometers from Qishan County, the Zhougong Temple was built in the
Tang Dynasty (618-907) to commemorate Zhougong, the regent of the newly
established Western Zhou Dynasty.
Edited By : Chen Hong
Source : www.chinaview.cn
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