In Pics: A visit to Shimao ruins in NW China's Shaanxi Province
Xinhua
06 Aug 2022, 23:30 GMT+10
SHENMU, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Shimao ruins are located in Shenmu, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The ruins were a neolithic city built about 4,300 years ago and abandoned roughly 300 years later during the Xia Dynasty (2100-1600 BC), the first dynasty in China described in historical chronicles.
Over the past 10 years, excavators have uncovered a stone city with immense fortifications and sophisticated infrastructure, thousands of luxurious artifacts and a 230-foot-high stepped pyramid.
"The site's early date and peripheral location were surprising since Chinese civilization was thought to have first developed in the Central Plains around 500 years after Shimao's founding," read an article in the Archaeology journal.
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