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Archaeologists from the university and Uzbekistan use the Luoyang Shovel to identify soil on a site in Uzbekistan in June. He says that when he and his team work with Central Asian scholars on archaeological surveys, they are often divided into two groups, one composed of local scholars, who visit villagers to find out if they have discovered any artifacts, and a group of Chinese scholars who survey the surrounding land, or part of it. It has also opened the China-Central Asia Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Human and Environment Research in Uzbekistan to improve studies of cultural heritage and geology along the Silk Road. According to Wang, cultural exchanges in Central Asia and the present-day Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in China actually started much earlier than Zhang's time. Important archaeological evidence for the process exists in the form of wheat and barley, which originated in West Asia, were brought to the Yellow River Basin about 4,000 years ago.

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Long-term work by Northwest University's archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road, Wang Ru and Wang Kaihao report in Xi'an. More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty named Zhang Qian entered the heart of the Eurasian continent. Embarking from the capital Chang'an …

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Tang Yunpeng, from Wang's team, discusses a site with Bahodir Yusufov, a doctoral student from Uzbekistan on campus.ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY Creating the bond As the study of the Greater Yuezhi made important progress, Chinese archaeologists began to pay closer attention to the Fergana Valley in 2019 — the valley runs through parts of present-day Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. That year, …

Sands of time reveal secrets
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Sands of time reveal secrets

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Long-term work by Northwest University's archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road, Wang Ru and Wang Kaihao report in Xi'an. More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty named Zhang Qian entered the heart of the Eurasian continent. Embarking from the capital Chang'an …

Sands of time reveal secrets
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Sands of time reveal secrets

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Wang Jianxin's team, from Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, works with Uzbek colleagues at the Sazagan Site, a large-scale tomb in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in 2015. Working with Central Asian counterparts, he and his team have gradually put together some of the jigsaw pieces scattered along the Silk Road, producing a new perspective on studies of its routes, and revealing cultural …

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Sands of time reveal secrets

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A published inventory of major archaeological finds in Uzbekistan by the university. ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY Cultural exchanges Northwest University has also trained young scholars from Central Asian countries, such as Bahodir Yusufov, a student from Uzbekistan currently pursuing his doctorate in archaeology at Northwest University, who is also a member of Wang's team. In the 1930s, pioneering archaeologists from Northwest …

Sands of time reveal secrets: Long-term work by Northwest University’s archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road
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Sands of time reveal secrets: Long-term work by Northwest University’s archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road

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More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty named Zhang Qian entered the heart of the Eurasian continent. Embarking from the capital Chang’an--modern-day Xi’an in Shaanxi province--on his arduous and pioneering journey in 138 BC at the request of the then emperor, Zhang was in search of the …

Sands of time reveal secrets: Long-term work by Northwest University’s archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road
4 months, 1 week ago

Sands of time reveal secrets: Long-term work by Northwest University’s archaeologists in Central Asia helps trace stories of the ancient Silk Road

China Daily  

More than 2,000 years ago, on a mission of peace and to bolster exchanges, an envoy from the Han Dynasty named Zhang Qian entered the heart of the Eurasian continent. Embarking from the capital Chang’an--modern-day Xi’an in Shaanxi province--on his arduous and pioneering journey in 138 BC at the request of the then emperor, Zhang was in search of the …

Sands of time protect an ancient treasure
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Sands of time protect an ancient treasure

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Site of Western Xia ceramic production in Northwest China fascinates archaeologists, Wang Kaihao reports. The ruins of 13 porcelain kilns were found by archaeologists in Helan county, Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia, at the Suyukou site, which covers about 40,000 square meters, according to a conference of the National Cultural Heritage Administration earlier this month in Beijing. Though only 1,000 sq …

Sands of time protect an ancient treasure
1 year, 9 months ago

Sands of time protect an ancient treasure

China Daily  

Site of Western Xia ceramic production in Northwest China fascinates archaeologists, Wang Kaihao reports. The ruins of 13 porcelain kilns were found by archaeologists in Helan county, Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia, at the Suyukou site, which covers about 40,000 square meters, according to a conference of the National Cultural Heritage Administration earlier this month in Beijing. Though only 1,000 sq …

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