Pamirs Plateau tombs indicate sun worshipping |
From: Xinhua/ Chinese Archeology Writer: Date:2013-6-8 |
Chinese archaeologists have started excavating a cluster of tombs on the Pamirs Plateau that are arranged to imply sun worshipping. The tombs were found in Xinjiang's Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, a border region neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2007, and the arrangement is a new mystery on the crossroads of the ancient Silk Road. Carbon dating results showed that the tombs date back about 2,500 years, or 300 years before China's first emperor established the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC). Dilsadiq, head of the county's cultural relics department, said that the people buried in the tombs might have dignified social statuses because the black stones carried from afar and lined up with a certain pattern were a rare resource in the area. Three similar but smaller tomb clusters with ray-like stones have also been discovered in the county. |
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
2,500-year-old tombs on the Pamirs Plateau and sun-worshiping ?
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