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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) — On the occasion of International Museum Day, a China-Uzbekistan joint archaeological team held an event aimed at educating the public about archaeology, according to the website of Northwest University of China (NWCU), which is located in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province.
More than 50 local students and schoolchildren were invited to the archaeological site of Çınartepa and familiarized themselves with the archaeological excavation process and discoveries.
The Chinese-Uzbek archaeological team was created by the SZU and the Samarkand Archaeological Institute of Uzbekistan. In 2019, experts from both sides discovered the remains of settlements and burials from the Kushan Empire period (1st-4th centuries) near the village of Chinar in the Surkhandarya region of this country. From April to June 2024, experts conducted the first joint excavations of the site with an area of 25 thousand square meters.
During the excavations, more than 20 burials and a rectangular ash pit with a large number of ceramic net weights and a jug with two handles were discovered.
Judging by the findings, the inhabitants of the Kushan Kingdom more than 1,600 years ago were engaged in agriculture and fishing, growing wheat, rice, grapes and other types of garden crops.
However, the Kushan Empire maintained contacts with the Celestial Empire. According to notes discovered during excavations in Gansu Province, ambassadors from this kingdom visited Chang’an, the modern city of Xi’an, while traveling along the Great Silk Road.
During the presentation of the achievements of archaeological research, as noted in the SZU, the unique attractiveness of archaeology for the activation of humanitarian contacts between China and Uzbekistan was demonstrated. -0-