2,200-year-old Qin Dynasty ancestral temple complex discovered in Gansu Province, NW China.
2,200-year-old Qin Dynasty ancestral temple complex discovered in Gansu Province, NW China. The Sijiaoping site in Lixian County features a large-scale, symmetrical ritual building with a square, semi-crypt space paved with tiles and connected to a clay drainage pipe - a first in ancient ritual buildings. Believed to be an ancestral temple for the first emperor of Qin during China's unification, the find offers insights into ancestral temple architecture and state sacrificial buildings.
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