New round of excavation at Xinjiang temple site
China DailyArchaeologists began a new round of excavation work in July on Mo'er Temple ruins, a Buddhist site, in Kashgar prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. This is the fourth consecutive year that China has carried out archaeological excavation at the Buddhist site built around the third century AD and this year's excavation will cover a total area of 500 square meters, according to a joint archaeological team of the Minzu University of China and the regional institute of cultural relics and archaeology in Xinjiang. Upon approval by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, a team of archaeologists led by Xiao Xiaoyong, a professor from the Minzhu University of China, began to excavate the site in 2019. "Among the unearthed Buddha statues, there are giant ones, larger than real people, and small statues measuring just of tens of centimeters," Xiao says, adding that, in the past three years, more than 10,000 pieces of pottery, stone, wood and bone, as well as coins and plaster Buddha statues have been found at the site.
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