Posted on 01/29/2009 6:32:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists are uncovering the details of city life as it was 2,000 years ago in the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an.
As the capital of the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC to 8 AD), Chang'an was a metropolis with an area of 36 square kilometers, about four times the size of the contemporary Rome. Its ruins lay in the suburb of today's Xi'an, capital of northwestern Shaanxi Province.
"After about five decades of work, we can map out the city's clear layout now, but we still know little about how its 240,000 residents lived," said Liu Zhendong, the head of an excavation team from the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), in an interview with Xinhua here.
The 12-gate, walled city had eight avenues, each of which were 45 to 55 meters wide and lined with trees.
Its wall was 12 meters high, 25,700 meters long and surrounded by an eight-meter-wide moat. To run around it would be equal to take running half marathon.
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Thanks.
Don’t mention it. You & blam, and the rest of the crew do all the work. :-)
[Archaeologists try to revive daily life of 2,000-year-old ancient Chinese capital [ Chang’an ]]
It’s called “The Obama Bailout Plan”
;’)
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