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A CITY wall of the Western Zhou Dynasty (11 century B.C.-771 B.C.) has been found around a newly discovered tomb group at the Zhougong Temple site in Qishan County in Shaanxi Province, archaeologists said Tuesday.
The discovery of the city wall was of great significance to research of the history of the dynasty, said Lei Xingshan, associate professor with Beijing University who participated in the excavation.
The tomb group inside the wall is considered to be of the highest standard of the dynasty ever discovered.
The 1,500-meter wall surrounds the eastern, northern and western sides of the tomb group. It is separated into three parts and is about 10 meters thick.
Meanwhile, archeologists have also discovered more than 700 tortoise shells of the Western Zhou Dynasty in an ash pit near the site of the Zhougong Temple, 82 of them bearing inscriptions.
The temple was built in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to commemorate Zhougong, the governor of the Western Zhou Dynasty when it was first established.
The Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute and Beijing University started excavating the Zhougong Temple site in February.
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