(ORDO NEWS) — Recently, in Shaanxi Province (Northwest China), archaeologists unearthed the foundations of two palace buildings that may have been erected more than 2,000 years ago.
These buildings are part of the ruins of the city of Yueyang, which was once the capital of the fiefdom of Qin during the Zhangguo/Warring States period, 475-221. BC./.
They are located in the current Yanliang District of Xi’an City / adm. center of prov. Shaanxi/.
The specific principality of Qin is known for the fact that, having united all of China, it laid the foundation for the Qin Dynasty / 221-207. BC/, which became the first single feudal dynasty in the history of the country.
In the 1980s, archaeologists discovered the ancient city complex number 1 on the above ruins, while complexes numbers 2 and 3 were discovered after 2012. These two palace buildings belong to the third complex.
According to Liu Rui, a researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (AISC), the two buildings were rectangular in shape and faced south.
During the excavations in certain corners of the building, several semicircular tiles were found, which can become an important material for solving a number of scientific issues related, in particular, to the use of such tiles.
At one of the sites, archaeologists also discovered an ancient toilet structure, its ruins consisted of a base for a toilet seat and the remains of a drain pipe.
Excavations have for the first time provided a general idea of ​​the layout of important palace buildings in the central districts of the capital from the middle Zhangguo period to the early period of the Western Han Dynasty /202 BC. – 8 AD/.
A central axis was also discovered, running north to south through the main palaces of the ancient city complex number 3. This find, in turn, is of great value for the study of capital cities in ancient China.
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